[Genealib] Genealogy Room Set-up

[Don]

I back *fully* what Kate Stirk states in her reply to the group.  I worked
as a volunteer librarian at a genealogy library that changed over from her
suggested method and saw the visitation of researchers fall off drastically
when people came in and found the change to totally Dewey by region.....

They are also now doing a dis-service to people as they now are dismembering
the periodicals put out by various genealogy-historical societies and
putting them into a vertical system.  I REFUSE to go and browse those file
cabinets now for any periodical material.  How do you connect them with a
PERSI search to the issue, periodical, location now????
Don Finel


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Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:30 PM
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Subject: Re: [Genealib] Genealogy Room Set-up

I admit to having very strong feelings on this topic because I'm usually
only allowed a few hours to do research while my dear spouse is waiting as
patiently as he can...

Please think about your researchers. Put the collection in order by region,
then by state and within the state by county. Alphabetically by county. The
library in Macon, Georgia is this way.

When people come in to look for family- they look for the county where
events happened. Having all the books on that county (marriage, deeds,
wills, cemetery, church, etc) together makes it so much easier for your
patrons.

Please do not do it strictly by Dewey- those collections are so hard to use
because the marriages are all in one area, the cemeteries in another....

 There is a library (which shall remain nameless) close to me that has gone
Dewey- and they do not have a catalog in the genealogy area....I just quit
going there. No catalog, books on a county in a variety of shelves- chaos
for a researcher.

When I go in a genealogy library done strictly by Dewey, I know the
catalogers made the decision not the genealogists.....

Kate Stirk, Librarian
Chattahoochee Technical College, North Metro Campus
StirkK at Juno.com




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