Re: [LM_NET] Dewey

[Thomas Kaun <tomkaun@GMAIL.COM>]

I only hope that everyone who tinkers with the shelving system or subject
headings documents what they are doing. None of us will be in a particular
place forever and not taking your successor into account is not very
professional behavior.
Cross references, which I'm afraid many don't use (too swamped!?), are also
essential if we want kids to learn how the real world works and "find
information efficiently and effectively."
See the July 14 post on The Cataloguing Librarian blog, "What's the big
deal, you just import it,
right?"<http://laureltarulli.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/what%E2%80%99s-the-big-deal-you-just-import-it-right/>for
an instructive take on some of the issues.
Tom Kaun

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Marsha Redd <marsharedd@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I agree that Dewey can sometimes be confusing especially to kids, but it
> does provide an organizational structure. I can't imagine doing away with it
> at the high school level. That said, I think in a school library it is
> important to adapt your organization to fit your patrons. That is why I took
> all graphic materials out of the 700's and made a graphic materials section.
> Don't most of us adapt Dewey already when it comes to fiction? How many of
> us actually put fiction in the 800's? Similarly, I use educational license
> in creating subject heads. If I followed Sears faithfully, students would
> often be lost when searching for books by subject.
>
>
> Marsha Redd
> Librarian, Kelloggsville High School
> Grand Rapids, MI
> marsharedd@hotmail.com
> Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a student.
> Everyone is a teacher.
>
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