Re: [LM_NET] dewey number question

[mmhung <mmhung@SCHOOL.NET.HK>]

There is a shelving rule governing the shelving policies in libraries. Usually, 
that appears as alphanumeric sequence. number comes first and then alphabets.

======= 2005-04-28 12:14:33 wrote this in your previous mail=======

>I have been putting books with call numbers that have numerals rather than
>letters before the letter "A" but only because that is the ordinary computer
>collating sequence.  It's also sorted that way by my automated catalog.
>
>I have, by the way, seen the NAME of the numeral (in your case, "Thirteen")
>treated as if it were the start of the title.  This doesn't make as much
>sense to me.
>
>There must be a rule somewhere, but I am myself not going to lose much sleep
>over it.  The catalog and the shelf "match" and that's good enough for me,
>and useful for my patrons.
>
>Nancy Torok
>James J. Flynn School
>Perth Amboy, NJ 08861
>
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Regards,

Hung Ming Michael
SKH Bishop Mok Sau Tseng Sec School
Hong Kong
http://library.mst.edu.hk
mhung@mst.edu.hk
mmhung@school.net.hk

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