By Kirby Porter (Auth.)
This booklet is meant as a consultant for these those who were charged with developing a library or info carrier of their organization. it's a sensible consultant to the stairs that have to be taken, the folks that might must be handled and the approaches that may must be followed that allows you to deliver the enterprise to a profitable end. The e-book includes many functional assistance and tricks from the writer, dependent upon his 'hands-on', sensible event of developing many new details services.
- Deals with the total technique - from begin to finish
- Based on sound rules that experience labored in practice
- Easy to persist with as a step by step guide
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The systematic arrangement of knowledge, or in your case the systematic ordering of books and other material in your collection, will have two important functions as an aid to retrieval in these circumstances: ■ it provides for an overview of coverage within the collection on a subject basis; ■ it enables information to be retrieved from the collection without the whole collection being searched. As a result, retrieval will be quicker and more efficient. A classification achieves this by: ■ creating a link between the location of an item within the library with the library catalogue by using the classification number as a shelf mark; ■ allowing for direct retrieval by browsing – if the subject classification is known then all books in that subject area will be collocated on the library shelves and related subjects are likely to be found nearby.
A list of these classmarks is published in the Library’s Information Bulletin and the CD-Rom version of the scheme is updated annually. In addition there are a number of other guides and useful publications also available. Specialist classification schemes In general terms specialist classification schemes are designed to cover one subject area or to meet the interests or information requirements of particular user groups. This can include: 47 Setting Up a New Library and Information Service ■ classification schemes restricted to conventional subject areas such as law, medicine or music; ■ classification schemes designed to cover subject areas in a particular context like local collections; ■ classification schemes designed to satisfy the needs of particular users like architects, accountants and so on.
This process is aided by the use of an alphabetic index which allows staff and users to fix the notation to individual subjects and brings together the related aspects of a subject which may appear in more than one place in the schedules. Choosing a classification scheme While it is perfectly possible to devise your own classification scheme, and this may be the preferred option depending on the nature of the collection involved (the number of books you have and how specialist they are), you should first consider whether you will have the time and the resources to 40 Managing access – classification devote to the task of both developing a scheme and then maintaining it.