Greetings everyone! I’m new here and new to Judaic librarianship. I’m a full time public librarian that has taken a part time job in a Jewish college here in Florida. I’ve been tasked with cataloging their entire library along with the late head Rabbi’s collection. The thing is though I have a MLIS I didn’t take any cataloging classes. When I was hired I told them that I would have to learn on the job.
So, to classify everything I started using Dewey. I came across the many limits of the DDC. After research I came across the Elazar and Weine schemes. I decided to go with Elazar. But Elazar doesn’t include cutter numbers. I decided to use cutter numbers because that made more sense that alphabetize them once they are assigned the number. Also, I don’t know how to classify the Tanya books. Why I’m here is that I’m looking for libraries that use Elazar and would their librarians be willing to answer any questions I have about the classification? Regards Dorothy Hamilton PS I don’t know if it matters but I’m not Jewish.
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