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Hi, Liz - all the way from sunny Maine. How the heck are you? Please pass this along to Jennifer. Hi, Jennifer: The Maine College of Art library reclassified almost its entire collection (around 28,000 volumes) last summer. Some time ago (at least 3 years) we stopped using Dewey and began using LC - just like Sherman said. But we reached a point where space and student confusion made it essential to convert everything. We also did it to be compatible with other colleges and universities. We did much of the conversion in a blitz - we closed to the public and all users for 5 weeks and we took everything off the shelves, reclassified them, relabelled them and then put them back on the shelves. Because of the intricacies of LC, they didn't go back on the same shelves they came from, so that's why we did it this way. We also did a trial-and-error estimation of where materials would go back on the shelves - which was off quite a bit a number of times!! - so we ended up doing a lot of shifting once the shelves began filling up. We think it was worth it. We certainly got to know the collection! And we were able to clear up some very odd, very old cataloging errors. Although we didn't finish in that 5-week period, we got about 80% of it done and then worked the rest of the summer to finish off another 15%. The rest we completed in the fall term. It's a lot of work, and I agree with Sherman that if you don't have to do it (i.e., the collection doesn't circulate, etc.), then perhaps you shouldn't. My recommendation if you do decide to go forward is to close down for as long as you can possibly do so. We had been classifying new books in LC, picking at doing conversion for months (any time a book was checked in we'd reclassify it) and getting nowhere fast, so we just bit the bullet, so to speak, and just Best, Moira _______________________________________ Moira Steven Library Director Joanne Waxman Library Maine College of Art 522 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 207-775-5153 / [log in to unmask] "All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making" - John Currin Liz Gentry <[log in to unmask]> writes: > > > >Our new librarian at Tellus - Northwest Georgia Science Museum has asked >the following question. I will forward on to her your responses. > >Hey Liz! >Guess what… I have email now! Yay! Still no desk or voice mail but we’re >working on it. >I have a question for you. Julian asked me to do a list of pros and cons >regarding changing our library over to LC or leaving it as is and >continuing on with Dewey. Would this be an appropriate question to put >out on ARLIS? I would love to know some other librarians’ opinions since >I am still getting familiar with LC. I plan to do a search on the web to >see what I come up with, and I would value your opinion as well. The >price for the Sears Subject Heading catalog (Dewey) and the two main LC >classification manuals are about the same ($100.), so it’s more of a >time/organization question. Thanks for all your help and any suggestions >you have. > >Jennifer C. > >Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > >Liz Gentry, Librarian >Booth Western Art Museum >P. O. Box 3070 >Cartersville, GA 30120 >(770) 387-1300 >(770) 387-1319 - Fax >www.boothmuseum.org > > __________________________________________________________________ Mail >submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA >see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file >requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L >Archives and subscription maintenance: >http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to >list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]