Breaking Up With Dewey: What are we doing

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Breaking Up With DeweyWhat are we doing?

• Converting to a word based classification system
• Using BISAC as a guideline

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Why?

• Experience library model
• Ease of use
• Words instead of Numbers
• Group like with like
• Neighborhoods/families of materials

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Rangeview Library DistrictA Revolution

• Community assessment
• OCLC study, From Awareness to Funding
• Customer focused library
• 4 new branches
• New administrative team

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Are we renegades?(Who else is doing this?)

• Londons Idea store
• Maricopas Perry and Queen creek branches
• Frankfort Library District
• Deweyfree.com

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New direction promoted by leadership team

• 2008 weeding days in all branches
• 90 of collection younger than 2004
• Circulation up 15
• Planning for new branches and service model
  (experience)

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Design BISAC

• Collection development team worked to come up
  with a classification system
• Used BISAC as a model with input from Maricopas
  classification system
• What will it look like for Rangeview?

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What does the Classification system look like?

• What spine labels should we use?
• Spine Labels examples

COOKING ETHNIC ITALIAN
BIOGRAPH FAMOUS TRUMP
HISTORY MILITARY WW2
MEDICAL HRT DIS
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Planning and implementation

• Problem collections
• GN
• Biography
• Parenting (preparation for Family Place)
• Fairy Tales
• Teach staff how to at various meetings
• Convert small collections, then a full branch

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More Planning

• Work with vendor to plan processing changes for
  cataloging
• Constant communication for updates/questions on
  items
• Set up Opening Day Collections timelines
• Use book store model
• Field trips!

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Staff time/branch involvement

• Collection development team makes labels, changes
  records in the catalog
• Collection development team trains branch staff
• Work with branch manager to plan the conversion
  in branch
• Create timeline based on the branch conversions

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Whats next?

• Opening day collections arriving with BISAC
• Full branch conversion
• Signs created in-house by Communications
  Department
• Ongoing conversion of existing branches project
  completion, December 2009

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Shifting the Collection

• Creating neighborhoods or families of like
  materials
• Parenting, baby names, lose weight after baby,
  etc.
• Nature, science, technology, math, education,
  tests
• Signs and maps for branches work with
  Communications team

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How will we know its working?

• Statistical tracking/analysis
• Circulation
• Customer feedback
• Staff comments
• May need to alter
• Signs
• Add/subtract subject headings

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Rangeview Library District

• Contact
• Rachel Fewell
• Collection Development Manager
• 303-288-2001
• rfewell_at_rangeviewld.org