[Genealib] New library question **** arrangement

[Beth Oljace]

At Anderson Public Library, we use what we call a modified Dewey.  For books 
on Indiana, Dewey groups things by state regions.  We just shuffled it to an 
alphabetical arrangement.  Madison County, where we live, has a correct 
Dewey number of 977.257.  In our system, Madison County is 977.248 because 
that's where it falls alphabetically.
 


-----Original Message-----
From: "Trevia Wooster Beverly" <treviawbeverly at comcast.net>
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 08:47:08 -0500
Subject: Re: [Genealib] New library question   **** arrangement


Pam's reply made me realize I did not go far enough  with my earlier answer. 

We do the same thing at Clayton ... general and then by counties but within 
those county sections, arranged by the Dewey number.  In the state section, 
the 'general' books are in Dewey order.
In the family section, the Surname in alpha order, or by the "major" 
surname.
   Trevia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "P.M. McLaughlin" <pm_mclaughlin at yahoo.com>
To: "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Genealib] New library question


>I rather like the arrangement I've seen at several
> genealogy libraries - the books are arranged by state,
> with the general books first, and then the books that
> are county specific. For patrons, arranging the county
> books alphabetically is probably easiest, though a
> good case could be made for using the Dewey numbers
> for counties, as that keeps things together from a
> geographic point of view.  YMMV
>
> Pam
>
> --- Dkhuck at aol.com wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am with the Montana Genealogy Library.  We are all
>> volunteers and  are
>> cataloguing over 7000 books.  I need some
>> suggestions on how to  organize our
>> library.  I just found your website and wish I'd had
>> the  advise 6 months ago.  We
>> are using the dewey system and am organizing the
>> books by state.  Any advise
>> to help us thru our struggles would be  appreciated.
>>  I am not a librarian,
>> just a volunteer.  We have many  wonderful old books
>> that our state historical
>> society gave to us.  We are  part of the Montana
>> Shared Catalogue, but are not
>> live yet.
>>
>> Bye,
>> Karen Huck
>> MT State Genealogy Library
>>
>>
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