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Colleagues:
Our library has a growing collection of stock photography and stock
illustration catalogs, which are immensely popular with our graphic art
students. Unfortunately, the catalogs aren't exactly well indexed. If they
have
a TOC at all, they're usually vaguely thematic, e.g., "Environmental Issues"
or "American Themes." If a user wants a picture of something specific,
e.g., a butterfly,
he or she is forced to flip the pages one after the other. Not exactly
great for someone in a hurry. Right now, they're organized on the shelf
by name of organization, then subdivided by type, e.g., "showcase"
(basically
one page spreads that highlight a particular artist's work), or "catalog."
This system isn't really working. By the end of each quarter, the
stacks look like they were hit by a train.
We're looking for ideas on a better organization/retrieval system that
would work for our roughly 2000 students (tops) and a hardworking staff of
3? If you collect these sorts of serials, please share your
knowledge with the list. We'd appreciate it.
Thank you
Cathy Donaldson
library director
Art Institute of Seattle
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