Comments for What would we do without information? http://infoenterprises.wordpress.com Information Enterprises Australia - Finding ways to put your information in order Thu, 29 May 2008 07:07:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Colour Code your library by informationenterprises http://infoenterprises.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/colour-code-your-library/#comment-12 informationenterprises Thu, 29 May 2008 07:07:51 +0000 http://infoenterprises.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-12 This takes me back to my early days working in a public library when we used to colour code the fiction books by placing various coloured stars on the spine to denote the category e.g. thriller, romance, crime, "racy" etc. Our patrons who were quite elderly used to look for the appropriate coloured star for their book selection and not worry about the title or the author! You can imagine our amusement when the red stars denoting a rather racy novel were snapped up by very demure ladies! Happy memories! Regards Gail This takes me back to my early days working in a public library when we used to colour code the fiction books by placing various coloured stars on the spine to denote the category e.g. thriller, romance, crime, “racy” etc. Our patrons who were quite elderly used to look for the appropriate coloured star for their book selection and not worry about the title or the author! You can imagine our amusement when the red stars denoting a rather racy novel were snapped up by very demure ladies!
Happy memories!
Regards
Gail

]]> Comment on Colour Code your library by Peter http://infoenterprises.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/colour-code-your-library/#comment-3 Peter Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:11:21 +0000 http://infoenterprises.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-3 Hi Lorraine In my summer vacs, when I was an Information Science undergraduate at Leeds Poly, I worked at the British Library, Boston Spa. Because I knew the alphabet, they put me in the Cyrillic Store, and each year they gave me half a mile (yes, half a mile) of random Soviet books and journals to merge with the rest of the stock. First of all I sorted everything by size - because everything was so standardised in the USSR, all the books were one of size, and all the journals another size. Then I sorted by colour to get all the journal titles close to each other. This worked well, except for the October issues which were often given red covers in celebration of the Revolution. And for journals from the Baltic republics could be worse, because they sometimes had an extra red issue to mark the anniversary of their liberation during WWII. So now you know! Peter Hi Lorraine

In my summer vacs, when I was an Information Science undergraduate at Leeds Poly, I worked at the British Library, Boston Spa. Because I knew the alphabet, they put me in the Cyrillic Store, and each year they gave me half a mile (yes, half a mile) of random Soviet books and journals to merge with the rest of the stock.

First of all I sorted everything by size – because everything was so standardised in the USSR, all the books were one of size, and all the journals another size. Then I sorted by colour to get all the journal titles close to each other. This worked well, except for the October issues which were often given red covers in celebration of the Revolution. And for journals from the Baltic republics could be worse, because they sometimes had an extra red issue to mark the anniversary of their liberation during WWII.

So now you know!

Peter

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