Aprilis Wrote:So what happens when the computers go down at the library? No one can find any books? Who has the dewey decimal system memorized?
That's what staff are for. Most Masters of Library Science grads (if they are worth the air they take up) have the major numbers in Dewey and Library of Congress Classifications memorized. Even the non MLIS staff (if they've been there more than 10 minutes) have a general idea of what is on each shelf (even if they don't know what number it is).
If your staff are completely useless, make them bring you the classification books out of the back and you can use them to find the number for the subject of the book you are wanting to use.
IMHO, the only thing anyone really needs to know about finding books in their local library, if the computer catalogue goes down, is that FPW's books are filed in the fiction collection under WIL, in alphabetical order.
Heh.
-Wapitikev
Axioms Jack seems to live by (inadvertantly or not):
Why he does what he does: "I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be either." Bruce Wayne, Identity Crisis
On Rasalom: "Water's wet, the sky is blue...and good old Satan Claus, Jimmy...he's out there...and he's just gettin' stronger." Joe Hallenbeck, The Last Boyscout