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.
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- 1. What has Dewey done for you lately? Deb Hoadley, Library Director Langley-Adams Library Groveland, MA 4/28/2011 Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 2. 2 BISAC Categories ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES ARCHITECTURE ART BIBLES BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY BODY, MIND & SPIRIT BUSINESS & ECONOMICS COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS COMPUTERS COOKING CRAFTS & HOBBIES DESIGN* DRAMA EDUCATION FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS FICTION FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY GAMES GARDENING HEALTH & FITNESS HISTORY HOUSE & HOME HUMOR JUVENILE FICTION JUVENILENONFICTION LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES LAW LITERARY COLLECTIONS LITERARY CRITICISM MATHEMATICS MEDICAL MUSIC NATURE PERFORMING ARTS PETS PHILOSOPHY PHOTOGRAPHY POETRY POLITICAL SCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY REFERENCE RELIGION SCIENCE SELF-HELP SOCIAL SCIENCE SPORTS & RECREATION STUDY AIDS TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING TRANSPORTATION TRAVEL TRUE CRIME http://www.bisg.org/what-we-do-20-73-bisacsubject- headings-2008-edition.php
- 3. 4/28/2011 Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 4. InspirationPatron-driven model Why do patrons prefer to browse/buy from bookstores? Accessibility Familiar subject headings Comfortable areas Attractive spaces Browsing allowed 4/28/2011 Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 5. Inspiration from Maricopa County Library System-Arizona 4/28/2011 Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 6. Motivation 4/28/2011 Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 7. Final Layout 4/28/2011 Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 8. Perspiration 4/28/2011 Massachusetts Library Association Conference Volunteers helped to box up over 500 boxes Coming up with our spine label standard Re-labeling our non-fiction spine labels Changing records Where should we put the new categories?
- 9. Justification Statistical data to support Patrons love the new layout of the library Patrons love the ability to look at the sections and find what they are looking for Shelving is easier No conflict with consortium/just a change in local call number 4/28/2011 Massachusetts Library Association Conference
- 10. Flexibility & Adaptability 4/28/2011 Massachusetts Library Association Conference Watching patron traffic patterns to best arrange collections Using merchandising techniques to best display collections Signs, signs, signs…
- 11. Information Webinar by National Book Network http://pdfs.nbnbooks.com/BI/SAC/BISACWebinar.pdf Book 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/ 4/28/2011 Massachusetts 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 doesn’t 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 didn’t 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 aren’t finished yet!
- Statistics only show part of the picture.