Maybe I am missing something --I can see accession numbers for closed stacks where the DVDs are retrieved after a patron finds them in the catalog. However, what about browsers who want to look through foreign films, musicals, etc. Accession number order would be a nightmare for serendipity, no? Christine Crowley Dean of Learning Resources Adjunct Faculty--Theatre Northwest Vista College 3535 N. Ellison Dr. San Antonio, TX 78251 210.486.4572 office 210.486.4504 fax ccrowl...@alamo.edu Northwest Vista College is one of the Alamo Colleges www.alamo.edu/nvc/lrc
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From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu on behalf of Rick Faaberg
Sent: Sun 5/22/2011 9:51 PM
To: Videolib List
Subject: Re: [Videolib] Question about LC call numbers
On 5/22/11 7:02 PM, "Randal Baier" <rba...@emich.edu> sent this:
In my opinion, humbled by such an august group, this is a compulsion up
with which I will not put. Given the catalogs we use, if there are decent
subject headings and full information, and format filters, I don't really think
it's necessary to LCify media. Incremental accession numbers work for us.
I concur. I did the LC thing with our K-12 collection way back when - and the
library users (teachers) did not like it at all. (The school librarians did
like it, but that's another story :)
One year later, back to the subject headings and accession numbers.
Best
Rick Faaberg
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