Re: gen:SHELF LIST TOO?????

[Bev Rovelli <brovelli@RELEX.COM>]

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>I stopped using accession numbers three years ago when we automated, did
>continue it the first year but then couldn't come up with a compelling
>reason to keep on doing it.  Dumped the shelf list then too.  Haven't
>missed them and the ghost of Melville Dewey hasn't shown up to haunt my
>dreams!
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>                           Guusje Moore
>                 Librarian, Housman Elementary School
>                           Houston, Texas
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I have also automated, but I can't quite give up the infamous shelf list
card.  I think I have a little security in having a "real live" index card
for each book and AV material.  I love having my "printed" shelf list and in
truth, that is all that I look at, if I need to check on something!!!  What
do people think??  bev
Bev Rovelli             brovelli@nsl.relex.com

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