[Genealib] Rearranging collection: LH topics

[Kenneth Aitken]

I've come into this thread late, but find it most interesting.  I was very
frustrated with DDC and its use of the 929 classification for my entire 22
year career as a local history genealogy librarian. The truth was, my
frustration was really with the cataloguers. I could not convince them that
cemetery transciptions should be classed with the same number as the local
histories of those communties. And it was a real battle to convince them
that not every publication of a genealogical society should be in 929.
Through three catalog librarians I struggled to get census indexes linked to
the classification of the local they indexed-- not 929 because they were
published by a genealogy society or 304 or 312 bcause someone had put them
there once! Short of going postal, I could not win over the technical
services manager.
Retirement is really blissful. I run my own business. I am my own boss. And
when I hire a technical services manager or a cataloger, I have things my
way.

Have fun!
Ken
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Kenneth G. Aitken, MLS
Family History Education Services
Regina, SK  Canada
kgaitken at gmail.com

Check out my blog! www.genealogy-education.com
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