Library journal changes
Dec. 22nd, 2004 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seandcThis post is an answer (kinda ;)) to FrontLine's question in the AL checkin thread, since it might be a bit long to put into my post there, what with the way I blather on with the details.
At the beginning of last year, the state government merged our Department of Education and Department of Training (and an assortment of other agencies) into one megadepartment (after being split some 15 years earlier ;)). We were among the last departments to be merged, many more having been done a year earlier when they came to power.
Our libraries were merged, and we moved their stock into our shelves a year ago and took their remaining staff member (the other got another offer), to make us one big happy family.
Now, both libraries did indeed use Dewey (although other classification systems exist, like Moyes for law libraries or Library of Congress like Katie mentioned), but for journals we used different suffixes and prefixes to denote an item belonged to the Journal collection. We (Education) used S suffixes so our numbers would look like 371.2005 S15, with each journal at that number getting a higher number after the S. An example, 658.3005 S1 is the number for Training and Development, 658.3005 S3 is the number for Training : Helping People and Business Succeed. The Training library used S as a prefix to the number with a regular as-the-cataloguer-would-do suffix, so theirs would look like S 374.013 AUS. In their collection, both Training and Development and Training : Helping People and Business Succeed had the exact same number, S 658.3124 TRA.
What I'm doing is changing all the Training numbers to match our numbers (since our library was bigger), so when I'm done they'll all be using the 370.9941 S3 style numbers, and doing some weeding as well. It'll keep me busy for a while, even if the others take over while I'm on holiday.
At the beginning of last year, the state government merged our Department of Education and Department of Training (and an assortment of other agencies) into one megadepartment (after being split some 15 years earlier ;)). We were among the last departments to be merged, many more having been done a year earlier when they came to power.
Our libraries were merged, and we moved their stock into our shelves a year ago and took their remaining staff member (the other got another offer), to make us one big happy family.
Now, both libraries did indeed use Dewey (although other classification systems exist, like Moyes for law libraries or Library of Congress like Katie mentioned), but for journals we used different suffixes and prefixes to denote an item belonged to the Journal collection. We (Education) used S suffixes so our numbers would look like 371.2005 S15, with each journal at that number getting a higher number after the S. An example, 658.3005 S1 is the number for Training and Development, 658.3005 S3 is the number for Training : Helping People and Business Succeed. The Training library used S as a prefix to the number with a regular as-the-cataloguer-would-do suffix, so theirs would look like S 374.013 AUS. In their collection, both Training and Development and Training : Helping People and Business Succeed had the exact same number, S 658.3124 TRA.
What I'm doing is changing all the Training numbers to match our numbers (since our library was bigger), so when I'm done they'll all be using the 370.9941 S3 style numbers, and doing some weeding as well. It'll keep me busy for a while, even if the others take over while I'm on holiday.
