[CALIBK12] Dewey-Less Library

[Debra Bohnett]

Please correct me if I am wrong - but isn't Dewey set up according to
subject? And aren't the book stores set up according to subject?
Assigning a number to represent that subject is an organizational tool.
The exception would be the organization of fiction sections - our
library uses the alphabet - and bookstores use genre.  But where do you
put books that might fit more than one genre?  I think it is easier to
alphabetize books in fiction for quick retrieval.  

 

I wonder what a large library would be in AZ.

 

Debra Bohnett

Chavez High

Stockton, CA. 

 

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In a message dated 9/12/07 5:05:58 PM, trosas at ovsd.org writes:





http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6477763.html



>>> Miele does admit, however, that getting rid of Dewey was easier for
her 28,000-square-foot library because it's smaller than most. 


     The size of a football field and it's "smaller than most" ???  

It sho ain't in California!!!


Richard K. Moore, InfoSherpa
Huntington Beach, CA
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