Colleagues,
We had the same discussion a year ago. At the time words were flung
around like "dewey police'!
I am a South African grad librarian, and when I came here 4 years ago to
become the media specialist at my high school my colleagues were amazed
that this person from a 3rd word country could grasp the library set up
in this bigh USA in less than an hour and actually finding the material
(books, teacher textbooks, dvd's etc etc) on the shelves, where they
could not.
Was this the cleverest librarian that came to their school??
It was only an informed, graduated librarian that knew Dewey Decimal
Classification.
The point? Libraries need a universal system, for both the library
staff and the patrons. We sell information; we do not need to get a
Dollar amount in our cash registers at the end of the school day.
Leave that to the companies.
I know I will be frustrated after ten minutes if I walk into a library
where I can not find information (ala Borders, Barnes and Noble) because
the workers at these book shops can not find the books either.
Danville Fourie
James Monroe High School
2300 Washington Avenue
Fredericksburg, VA
22401
dfourie@cityschools.com
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