Second day in the library! The current organization is more or less intact, and I have begun to refine (and further sort) the sections - lots of the marriage books have been mixed in with family and even more books for YA (most of them concerned with sex, drugs, and rock & roll) are popping up. The disconcerting thing, though, is that it appears the sections have been broken down and Dewey'd within that section. I'm struggling with knowing that many of these will have to be redone as I cover them... but if this was going to be easy I'd be bored :) I have separated them and then arranged them according to whatever Deweys they already have for the sake of clarity. Pictures will be uploaded later today.
Last night I spoke with the library team about how to arrange our non-academic area (self help, how-to, and fiction) and we agreed to separate YALIT and chapter books from the picture books and give them their own section - they have mostly been donated for our memorial library, and they will still be right next teach other so as to not become wholly separated. I know as a second grader I abhorred having to sift through 'baby books' (picture, board, and pop-up books) to get to C.S. Lewis and Peretti. So in the interest of the congregation youth they will be adjacent but apart. I am also ordering a stamp and bookplates to place in the books.
There is also the question of the multitude (as in an old testament multitude - there's a TON of these) audio cassettes. Many of them are seminars and lectures, so there is a lot of people who want to listen to them, but no one has a cassette player in their car anymore. I think that if I could get a decent computer (or just bring in my iMac) and my trusty Griffin iMic I could probably digitize them and put them on a hard drive for the A/V team here - we could then move the materials to the annex for storage or give them to the people who have cassettes still.
I also spoke to the team about the supplies I will be ordering later today and how best to make a cover dispenser. The one on Brodart is almost $130, which is a little too much for us. I think that given $30 at Home Depot and a day or two in the garage would yield a nice little rack we can mount on the wall or tuck in a corner for us to use. We'll burn that bridge when we come to it. I have also considered asking someone on Etsy to make one as it would be easy to make and only a little more expensive than making it myself.
The more time I spend in here the more I am hopeful. Many of the books here are applicable and useful and I can't wait to make them accessible.
I'll be honest, I'm extremely excited to be ordering spine and classification labels to make sections easier to browse since Dewey doesn't lend itself very well to such a teensy collection.
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