Actually, Borders does have an online catalog that the customer can use to
locate information on books in various sections. When / if you know the
title or the author, you can search it and it show something like this:
HUCKLEBERRY FINN--->MARK TWAIN---->LITERATURE
The last entry is "where" the book is found. Then you go to the section
(signage, of course) and locate the book alphabetically by the author's last
name....still some library skills there.
I did not find the Border's online catalog to be any more effective than
"guessing" but I do realize that what THEY want the customer to do is
ASK...then they can also direct you to other items (on sale, new titles,
etc.) Their business is selling the books!! The longer you are there, the
more likely you'll buy something.
With libraries, the longer you're there, the more likely you'll give up
(because you're afraid to ask the librarian where things are located or how
the online catalog works) and walk out mumbling something about "that
library never has anything I need!"
~Shonda Brisco
Trinity Valley MS / US Librarian
Fort Worth, TX
sbrisco021@charter.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Zabinski" <toby_zabinski@YAHOO.COM>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 1:15 PM
Subject: shelving in high school
> I think the bookstores shelve that way because they do not have a catalog
that lets the patron search for authors or titles. So there really is no
other way to find anything!! Thank heavens libraries don't operate that way!
>
> toby Z
>
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