[Genealib] Cataloging Ethnic Focused Genealogy Books

[graymatters at alltel.net]

This is an interesting topic to me, too, since just this week I was looking for online information about cataloging systems/adaptations used in genealogical libraries (eg LDS library, Newberry Library....) for a class paper and couldn't really find any (I had to change my topic). I remember that there was some discussion on this list not so long ago about organizing resources by county, etc., but does anyone know of any websites dealing with this? (I did find a couple of journal articles.) There are dozens or hundreds focusing on the Dewey Decimal System, Library of Congress, etc.....

I thought this would be an interesting subject to pursue, since in the volunteer family history library where I work we are considering making some changes in a cataloging system that at the moment could best be described as "random."

Thanks!

Martha Grenzeback
graymatters at alltel.net
(MLS student)
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> From: "Kristen Smith" <ksmith at aapld.org>
> Date: 2007/02/21 Wed AM 10:47:45 CST
> To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at lists.acomp.usf.edu>
> Subject: [Genealib] Cataloging Ethnic Focused Genealogy Books
> 
> Our library has recently started cataloging our genealogy books using
> our own cutters based on the ethnic/geographical focus of the book. For
> example, the book Finding Italian Roots: The Complete Guide for
> Americans by John Phillip Colletta has been assigned the call number
> 929.1 ITALIAN COL .  Many of these ethnic genealogy guides are fairly
> straightforward.  However, we've recently acquired the book Finding Your
> Ancestral Village in Slovakia, Czechy, Ukraine, Galicia and Hungary in
> the Former Austro-Hungarian Empire by John A. Hudick.  Does anyone have
> any advice how to categorize this work?  929.1 SLAVIC HUD?  Or 929.1
> AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN HUD?  Or 929.1 EASTERN EUROPEAN HUD?  Do other
> libraries employ this kind of system to assist patrons browsing the
> shelves?  If so, what designations to you use?
> 
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> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> 
> Kristen Newton Smith, M.L.S.
> 
> Reference Librarian
> 
> Algonquin Area Public Library
> 
> 2600 Harnish Drive
> 
> Algonquin, IL 60102
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