[Web4lib] Innovation: NYT article onDewey-lessArizona publiclibrary

[Richard Wiggins]

How about supplying a stack of Post-It Notes on all the shelves?  Patrons
could write notes and put them on shelf locations, on books, inside books,
whatever.  "The books on this shalf are really great sources on medical
ethics" or "This book is a great overview of the subject" or "This paragraph
is palpably absurd."

Non-destructive, ephemeral marginalia.

I know, it'd be a recipe for chaos.  But if we did this online we'd call it
social networking or Web 2.0 or something.

Stacks 2.0, anyone?

/rich


On 7/16/07, Louise Alcorn <Louise.Alcorn at wdm-ia.com> wrote:
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> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Pons, Lisa
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> If we want to make our libraries more "browsable", why couldn't we have
> signs that say "English Literature", "Ohio History" and more on the end
> of our stacks in addition to the dewey numbers. This would seem like a
> win-win for staff and users. Can we arrange layout for browsing, not for
> dewey? Could we make brochures and online guides for "browsing the
> library"?
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> That's exactly the kind of thing I'd like to see more of in libraries.
> The biggest argument I hear against it is staff time.  But that's the
> argument I hear against everything (we're 30-50% understaffed
> regularly).  It's not an invalid argument, but I still wish we could
> take this on as a time-valued project.
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