[Genealib] Why do you rearrange your collection?

[Ernie Thode]

When people are looking for records on a particular person, I think they are looking for records generated when the person lived in a certain area - probably the area where the library is located, so except for family histories (listed by surname, of course) our books are mostly listed by locality.

If they can easily find records filed by locality (state, then county, then town/township) and arranged within each locality category by types of record in alphabetical order, say births, cemeteries, churches, city directories, deaths, histories, marriages, wills, it helps the research process by putting records of the same locality together and suggesting other records to research. 

Ernie Thode
Washington County Public Library
Local History and Genealogy Dept.
418 Washington St.
Marietta, OH  45750-1922
phone (740) 376-2172
fax (740) 376-2175

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Cheryl Smith" <cheryls at plano.gov>
Reply-To: Librarians Serving Genealogists <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Date:  Thu, 4 May 2006 12:30:23 -0500

Hello,

I would like to rearrange our genealogy collection.  We have it in
normal dewey call number order.  Nothing is pulled out into separate
areas.  We are going to move the collection to a bigger area.  When we
do I would like to have the collection rearranged.  I know that most of
the genealogy collections out there are rearranged in some way.  I don't
want to know how because we've discussed that recently.  I want to know
why.  

Thanks for any help,
Cheryl Smith
Public Services Librarian Senior
Harrington Library
1501 18th St.
Plano, TX  75074
972-941-7175

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