Q&A

Bookstore Style Cataloging

Hi All!

I know that pretty much everyone here highly recommends the Dewy Decimal system of cataloguing but I'm looking to hear from church librarians who have small libraries and organize bookstore-style via categories.   

Our library is very small

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Classifying A Book

I am having trouble classifying the book Incredible Creatures and Creations for the Bible.  I have tried both OCLC and WorldCat without luck. This includes angels, bebemoths, etc.

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How to classify "Creation" in adult nonfiction?

Please help me understand the difference between 213 & 231.765 Dewey Decimal numbers for Creation. 

 

Example: "5 Reasons to Believe in Recent Creation" , by Henry M. Morris III  ---- where would you classify this book? 

 

My next primary focus (this

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Picture books - how to catalogue

I'm going to start re-labeling our children's books. A few questions about picture books specifically:

 

1. Do you label them as "P" followed by the author? or

Do you separate Child (0-7) "C" from Juvenile (8-12) "J"

 

2. Is a Child book one with few

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classification

how would you classify Topsys & Turvys by Peter Newell

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Please Talk Biographies . . . call numbers and groupings

In the Dewey Decimal System (DDS), biographies are listed within each subject area. This does make sense to me for a larger scale library operation. On the other hand, in our small library our patrons like to go to the Biography shelves to find a gre

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248 vs 305 or 306 - where do you put the family/individual person/books

We've made great progress on revamping our library, but I'm confused. I purchased the book A Classification System for Church Libraries and it's adding to my question. I'm making new spine labels for all our resources as in their current categories b

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"A Classification Guide For Church Libraries"

I am looking for an updated hard copy of "A Classification Guide For Church Libraries". The copy I am using is 1996 and I know there is one dated 2004. I have looked everywhere I know to look, but most are priced way out of my range, $200.00-500.00.

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How to Label DVDs ?

How to you label DVDs? 

Kids vs Adult section. But then I see comments about fiction and non fiction, Movie and Teaching 

What do you put on the spine?

To keep Veggie Tales together for example, the letters would need to include VEG or they’ll be all

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Concourse Atrium Program

How many of you use the Concourse Program "Atrium" ?

If so, what are the pro's and con's of it?

 

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Graphic Novels

Does anyone carry Graphic Novels in their church library?  If so, where do you classify them.  Dewey says 721.4.  Since we don't put Fiction in the 800's, I wonder if we should not put the Graphic novels in 700's, but in Fiction?

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Help with typing old card catalog records -- LONG STORY!!

Good morning, fellow librarians!!

 

I have volunteered to help our church library which is in dire need of update.

Unfortunately, the librarian in charge has been there for quite some time and

simply refuses to consider updating to any computerized s

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Direction please!

Hey girls and boys....can anyone recommend or direct me to an app or website which allows one to type in a book title for classification? 
Our church is small and so is our library so I am not using Dewey but rather a handful of relevant church categ

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Church libraries near Plainfield, IL?

I recently moved to Plainfield, Illinois. I was wondering if there was a library near me that could use a cataloger and help with other library projects? I have several years of experience in public, church and school libraries. 

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How to treat & label fiction books containing a story collection?

 

First, I'm deeply thankfull for this forum. I love reading (and re-reading) previous posts. 

I didn't find much about books (print) that contain a collection of stories and/or books and so the reason for the following question. 

 

How do you treat

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Reorganizing Classification

Hello again,

I had asked about this before and decided that I am going to do a topic classification, no numbers at all.

With that said I am having a bit of trouble on figuring out my topics...

so far I have:

R – Relationships

          RM – Marriage

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CD Disc Holder(s) for Books on CD

We have been given a lot of books on cd.

How do you keep them together.

There are anywhere from 1 cd per book up to 8 cd's per book.

Thanks for helping me with this.

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ebooks

This question was last posed several years ago. Things have potentially changed, I am wondering what people use now? The cost for a small (~350 person) congregation?

Thanks for any help

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