This document provides an overview of ongoing projects at the Bodleian Law Library, including two book moves, reclassifying part of the collection using the Moys system, reinstating displays, and creating a LibGuide. The first move involves relocating the Reserve Collection to a new desk. The Moys project involves reclassifying the General section using a system that allows books to fit into multiple categories. Displays featuring new journals, Oxford authors, and European documentation have also been reinstated. Finally, plans are discussed for reorganizing the library over the summer months.

1. “Just keep moving”:
Moys, moves and miscellanea

2. The Bodleian Law Library

3. What I’ll be talking about:
• Move #1: The Reserve Collection
• Moys #1: Reclassifying the General section
• Miscellanea #1: Reinstating displays
• Miscellanea #2: Making a LibGuide
• Moys #2: The Summer Plan
• Move #2: What the Law Library looks like right now

4. Move #1: The Reserve Collection
The old desk The new desk

7. Moys #1: Reclassifying the General section
• What is ‘Moys’?
• Why are we using it?
• What is the General section?
• How are we re-classifying it?
• Why do I think it’s so fun?
• An example of a book that could
fit nowhere and everywhere at
once, and how I reclassified it.
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moys

8. Nowhere and everywhere
• “The legal situation of women in
southern Africa”, edited by Julie
Stewart and Alice Armstrong:
General 510 W872a to where?
• Jurisdiction
• Subject – is it comparative?

9. • Look at the classification
schedule
• Look at the book
• Think about the subject…

11. Look on other catalogues
where Moys is used…

12. Look on our catalogue for the
subject headings…

13. Ask Felicity…
…Make a decision

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16. Miscellanea #1: Reinstating displays
The New Journals Display

17. Miscellania #1: Reinstating displays
The Oxford Authors Display

18. Miscellania #1: Reinstating displays
The European Documentation Centre Display

19. Miscellanea #2: Making a LibGuide

20. For all your Law and Literature research needs

21. Moys #2: The Summer Plan
• Planning – Plan A, Plan B
• Measuring and planning moves
• Label-making decisions and
processes
• Re-labelling

22. Move #2: What the law library will look like
Organised chaos…
…until September!

23. Thank you for listening!