Re: [LM_NET] FICTION sorted only by the first three letters of an AUTHOR's name?

[Katie Day <day.katie@GMAIL.COM>]

No, I'm quite sure that is the whole library policy -- I've seen it in at
least three separate branches, including the main one -- on every occasion
that I've gone to the library since moving here (which is maybe 20 times in
the past ten months).

Actually, they color-code each letter so the label is composed of three
colored stripes -- making it easy to tell when the three-letter-code section
changes (because at least one of the colored stripes changes).  For example,
I have here Sandi Toksvig's "Hitler's Canary" and the letter T is in a pink
stripe, the letter O is in a dark green stripe, and the letter K is in a
dark purple stripe.

It makes the shelves quite colorful, but I don't understand why they don't
bother to continue to sort by the whole author's name.  I can only assume
it's because of the huge collection and the high circulation figures.

-- Katie

On 6/4/06, Vreutt@aol.com <Vreutt@aol.com> wrote:
>
> I think you may have just seen some "quick & dirty" shelving! Just because
> the spine label is limited by three letters, there isn't any reason a
> shelver wouldn't put Wild first, then Wilder, Willard, Williams,
> Wilson....etc. And not only that - but titles in alphabetical order for each
> author.
>
>
>
> Vicki Reutter, LMS
> Cazenovia (NY) High School
> vreutt@aol.com
> vreutter@caz.cnyric.org
>

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