Getting to Know the Glades: Overview | DarienLibrary.org. We've been introducing our glades, broad subject areas that group similar areas of the Dewey Decimal System. We want our members to get to know their favorite glades, but for those of you looking for the big picture (and a Dewey cheat sheet), we thought we'd put up the big list. As you might expect, there are exceptions to these Dewey guidelines, but this list is where the Dewey numbers generally ended up. Body & Soul is where you’ll find books on religion, philosophy, self-help and health. 100s and 200s (Philosophy and Religion) 360s and 600 - 619 (Health and Medicine) 362s and 646s (Self Help) 155s and 649s (Childcare and Parenting).
Over in Nature are all the books on science, math and animals. 500s, 620s and 660s (Science and Math) 590s and 636-639 (Animals and Pets). Work is all business. Come and Play, where you’ll see books on sports, cars and recreation. 647, 793, 793.4 - 799, 947.3 (Sports and Recreation) 622 - 629 796.7 - 796.8, 797.1 - 797.15, 797.5 - 797.57 (Transportation) Ilovemyanythink's Channel. Doing More with Less: the McMillan Experience. Helping the Reader: Lessons Learned in the Evolution of a Display Oriented Public Library. It's Fine To Drop Dewey. The DDC is Killing our Libraries - Infomancy. The Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC) is broken. I am not going to entertain any sort of conversation on this point, it is just a fact you need to accept. Accept it, and move on. One of the incontrovertible facts that clearly demonstrate the brokenness of DDC is that we have to teach DDC, and that is the focus here.
Consider for a moment a brief exchange from Apple’s recent iPhone OS4 briefing: “Q: How do you close applications when multitasking? A: (Scott Forstall) You don’t have to. The user just uses things and doesn’t ever have to worry about it. If we have to teach our library classification system to a student, we blew it. So when (not if, when) we get rid of DDC, we are going to need a new system. Why not have the types of animals in alphabetical order so I can find the cat books after the bird books and before the dog books. Instead of a 200 year old system that doesn’t make sense, we need a new system that just works. Dewey Free Subject Taxonomies / FrontPage. Adams County libraries shelving Dewey Decimal. Library district in Adams County becomes first in the nation to ditch decimal system Chris Ashley reads while waiting for a turn on a computer at the Perl Mack branch, where books are now classified and shelved by word categories instead of the traditional Dewey system.
(Reza A. Marvashti, The Denver Post ) THORNTON — Clunky. Out of touch. Plenty would say that about General Motors or other American icons badly in need of retooling. But officials at the Rangeview Library District in Adams County are calling out another cultural institution, saying it no longer meets the needs of a new generation of readers. Say goodbye to the 133-year-old Dewey Decimal Classification. By the end of the year, all six Rangeview branches and the district's outreach office will dump the iconic Dewey and its numeric organizing system for one that relies on word categories such as "history" and "science. " The district will be the first in the U.S. to go this route, which is controversial among some librarians. PLA 2010 Conference: Cracking the Code: Beyond Dewey.
The Dewey Dilemma. By Barbara Fister In the search for better browsability, librarians are putting Dewey in a different class By Barbara Fister — Library Journal, 10/01/2009 Not long ago, a mother blogged about her visit to a newly opened public library in Darien, CT. Though she appreciated its soaring ceilings, the fireplaces and cozy nooks, the presence of a café, and state-of-the-art technology, what really excited her was the way the books were organized. “The books everywhere, but especially in the children’s room, have been shelved, labeled, and organized in a way that makes me feel less like a moron and more empowered to find what I’m looking for on my own.” She went on to say, “the Library, which in my mind used to be a little intimidating and kind of like a disapproving Mother, is reaching out to ME. ‘Library’ is saying to ME that she wants to be like ME and doesn’t expect me to be like her anymore.” Self-sufficiency The rebellion catches on The innovations at MCLD have inspired other libraries.
Dewey and BISAC : A Middle Path to Developing a Display Oriented Library. Rangeview Library District, CO, First System To Fully Drop Dewey. BISAC Subject Headings List, Major Subjects - 2009 Edition. Doing it without Dewey: A Perry Branch Library Tour. Library of the Maricopa County Library District, is a joint-use facility with the Chandler Unified School District and is located in the Town of Gilbert. This arrangement alone, for joint-use libraries, is a first to have three different government entities run one library.
Some StatsHoursThe library is open 10am to 8pm Monday through Thursday, and 10-5 on Friday and Saturday. They are open to the school from 7am to 10am only. Often the crux of the issue with this relationship is one of responsibility. The school acts as the parent while the child is in school, the library has no such responsibility. This is where policies collide since one needs to restrict and one wants to provide access. The New Classification System The library will categorize all of its materials like a bookstore, using the BISAC system (Book Industry Study Group) Subject headings. Each subject area has almost 100 sub-genres each. Our Tour guides Our library is opening a new branch library that is joint-use.
The Tour. The Dewey Dilemma - 10/1/2009 - Library Journal. Not long ago, a mother blogged about her visit to a newly opened public library in Darien, CT. Though she appreciated its soaring ceilings, the fireplaces and cozy nooks, the presence of a café, and state-of-the-art technology, what really excited her was the way the books were organized. “The books everywhere, but especially in the children's room, have been shelved, labeled, and organized in a way that makes me feel less like a moron and more empowered to find what I'm looking for on my own.” She went on to say, “the Library, which in my mind used to be a little intimidating and kind of like a disapproving Mother, is reaching out to ME. 'Library' is saying to ME that she wants to be like ME and doesn't expect me to be like her anymore.” It's not often that patrons express such strong enthusiasm for shelving systems, but in recent years librarians have been embroiled in a classification struggle.
Self-sufficiency The rebellion catches on Shelve under skeptical Joan S. The mashup solution. South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative: Trading Spaces Resource Page. Freeing Dewey.