[Genealib] Re: Genealogy Room setup

[Anne Gometz]

I think this is a recurring topic and we have requests from our patrons 
to redo our genealogy and local history collection "the way Rowan does it".

However, I've never seen anyone mention the question of integrating the 
collection with the rest of the library's holdings.  We have 13 
libraries in our system and we buy multiple circulating copies of books 
on local history and genealogical "how-to" books.  Since books without 
Dewey numbers that fit into the regular pattern would be quite a 
shelving problem in the circulating collection, I'm assuming that you 
will have to have two call numbers.  If I'm reading Rowan's catalog 
correctly, that's  what they do.  If I'm wrong, I hope someone from that 
library will correct me.  Your cataloging people may or may not find 
that burdensome.  At my first job, I set up a slightly modified Dewey 
system to avoid that problem.

Anne Gometz

Employee of Gaston Lincoln Regional Library, but no statement here is to 
be interpreted as an expression of library opinion or policy.  [Required 
disclaimer]