[Genealib] Why do you rearrange your collection? HOUSTON

Thu May 4 17:31:22 EDT 2006

Thanks, Lesley ....   well goes to show I should be down there more often. I
knew that and something was tagging at my mind (what's left of it today) but
...

  And I guarantee you she'll meet you at the door with the red carpet out!
She's a jewel. So come on over to see us....

Trevia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douthwaite, Lesley - HPL" <Lesley.Douthwaite at cityofhouston.net>
To: "'Librarians Serving Genealogists'" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:59 PM
Subject: RE: [Genealib] Why do you rearrange your collection? ** HOUSTON **

> A slight correction on the information from Trevia...At Clayton Library,
the
> arrangement is basically as she describes (and it works very well, our
> patrons and library staff love it). The arrangement within states is
general
> state material first, then individual county books, arranged
alphabetically
> by county, then bound periodicals, as she mentions. However, books within
> the states and the counties are arranged by Cutter number, not by Dewey.
> The only place where we use Dewey is in our USA section.
>
> Clayton Library contains material from all over the United States, in
> addition to foreign materials and a large collection of family histories.
> Most of our library users, though, are doing research in specific
geographic
> areas, and this arrangement suits them very well. We have been very happy
> with it and can't imagine using any other system.
>
> Lesley Douthwaite
> Assistant Manager
> Clayton Library, Center for Genealogical Research
> 5300 Caroline Street
> Houston, TX 77004
> 832-393-2600
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevia W Beverly [mailto:treviawbeverly at houston.rr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:38 PM
> To: Librarians Serving Genealogists
> Subject: Re: [Genealib] Why do you rearrange your collection? ** HOUSTON
> **
>
>
>     I'm not on staff at Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research -
> http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/clayton/ - a department of our Houston Public
> Library System (housed separately in multiple buildings on a two city
block
> complex) - but I am a  charter member of the Clayton Library Friends and
> volunteer on occasion.
>    Our set up is extremely user-friendly.  All of our family histories -
an
> extensive collection - are housed in the old Clayton House by alpha order
of
> the family name as the title or the major family name treated.
>     In the newer building, we have the USA section ... lineage books,
books
> covering wide  geographical areas, etc. ... and within that section most
> things fall naturally within the Dewey system.
>     Then we begin the state section ... alphabetical.  Those individual
> state sections are arranged with general first (books covering the state
or
> more than one county), then the counties (alphabetically) with the state.
In
> the county sections, Dewey again comes into play.
>      At the end of the specific state section, the bound volumes of
> genealogical quarterlies published within the state .. again in alpha
order.
>      It works wonderfully well!  This arrangement saves the patron from
> having to look up the catalog # or remembering the Dewey # ...  they know,
> for example, to go to TEXAS and then find Bexar (Bear) County. That's
where
> the Dewey # would come in handy but with this arrangement it is not too
> difficult to browse that particular section with it.
>     After the states section, foreign countries ...   and of course we
have
> the usual assortment of quarterly publications, vertical files, maps -
>     And we have NO CLOSED STACKS!
> Microcopy is on the second floor.
>
> One of our staff members could probably elaborate on what I've said but
> that's the gist of it -
> Ya'll come see us some time!
>
> Trevia Wooster Beverly
> Houston, Texas
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cheryl Smith" <cheryls at plano.gov>
> To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:30 PM
> Subject: [Genealib] Why do you rearrange your collection?
>
>
> 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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