What has dewey done for you lately
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Presentation for Massachusetts Library Association Conference 2011about the conversion to BISAC from Dewey at the Langley-Adams Library in Groveland.
What has dewey done for you lately
- 1. What has Dewey done for you lately?Deb Hoadley, Library DirectorLangley-Adams LibraryGroveland, MA4/28/2011Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 2. 2BISAC CategoriesANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLESARCHITECTUREARTBIBLESBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHYBODY, MIND & SPIRITBUSINESS & ECONOMICSCOMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELSCOMPUTERSCOOKINGCRAFTS & HOBBIESDESIGN*DRAMAEDUCATIONFAMILY & RELATIONSHIPSFICTIONFOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDYGAMESGARDENINGHEALTH & FITNESSHISTORYHOUSE & HOMEHUMORJUVENILE FICTIONJUVENILENONFICTIONLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINESLAWLITERARY COLLECTIONSLITERARY CRITICISMMATHEMATICSMEDICALMUSICNATUREPERFORMING ARTSPETSPHILOSOPHYPHOTOGRAPHYPOETRYPOLITICAL SCIENCEPSYCHOLOGYREFERENCERELIGIONSCIENCESELF-HELPSOCIAL SCIENCESPORTS & RECREATIONSTUDY AIDSTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERINGTRANSPORTATIONTRAVELTRUE CRIMEhttp://www.bisg.org/what-we-do-20-73-bisacsubject-headings-2008-edition.php
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- 4. InspirationPatron-driven modelWhy do patrons prefer to browse/buy from bookstores?AccessibilityFamiliar subject headingsComfortable areasAttractive spacesBrowsing allowed4/28/2011Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 5. Inspiration from Maricopa County Library System-Arizona4/28/2011Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 6. Motivation4/28/2011Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 7. Final Layout4/28/2011Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 8. Perspiration4/28/2011Massachusetts Library Association ConferenceVolunteers helped to box up over 500 boxesComing up with our spine label standardRe-labeling our non-fiction spine labelsChanging recordsWhere should we put the new categories?
- 9. JustificationStatistical data to support Patrons love the new layout of the libraryPatrons love the ability to look at the sections and find what they are looking forShelving is easierNo conflict with consortium/just a change in local call number4/28/2011Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 10. Flexibility & Adaptability4/28/2011Massachusetts Library Association ConferenceWatching patron traffic patterns to best arrange collectionsUsing merchandising techniques to best display collectionsSigns, signs, signs
- 11. InformationWebinar by National Book Network http://pdfs.nbnbooks.com/BI/SAC/BISACWebinar.pdfBook Industry Standard Group http://www.bisg.org/Book publishers are putting categories on backs of books http://waltshiel.com/2009/09/14/to-bisac-or-not-to-bisac/4/28/2011Massachusetts Library Association Conference
Editor's Notes
- There can be up to 3 categories, and at first we were only going to use up to 2, but then decided that if we ever have a vendor generate the spine labels for us, we would use all 3 categories.
- I have always been interested in why people want to hang out at the bookstore, and the idea of a browsing customer. We determined that our customers want to browse also, and we needed to figure out how to do a better job of allowing them to do this.
- This doesnt look like a daunting project t re-label, however I later found out that B&T does there cataloguing and processing and that is how they did it. There was one branch that was converting a collection like us, and they were doing it in-house, and it didnt look like a big project.I liked that BISAC is a standard classification scheme, so it does have rules.
- Our process
- Since everyone wants fiction, mysteries an biographies, we make people walk through non-fiction to get there.
- We learned a lot in this process: staff learned to weed and how to improve collection development decisions; volunteers learned what we do, and were part of that process from moving books, typing labels, moving collections, and shelving; it took much longer than we wanted, but had patron reassuring us that they love it; we arent finished yet!
- Statistics only show part of the picture.