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What has Dewey done for you lately?

Deb Hoadley, Library DirectorLangley-Adams Library

Groveland, MA

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BISAC Categories• ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES• ARCHITECTURE• ART• BIBLES• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY• BODY, MIND & SPIRIT• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS• COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS• COMPUTERS• COOKING• CRAFTS & HOBBIES• DESIGN*• DRAMA• EDUCATION• FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS• FICTION• FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY• GAMES• GARDENING• HEALTH & FITNESS• HISTORY• HOUSE & HOME• HUMOR• JUVENILE FICTION• JUVENILE NONFICTION

• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES• LAW• LITERARY COLLECTIONS• LITERARY CRITICISM• MATHEMATICS• MEDICAL• MUSIC• NATURE• PERFORMING ARTS• PETS• PHILOSOPHY• PHOTOGRAPHY• POETRY• POLITICAL SCIENCE• PSYCHOLOGY• REFERENCE• RELIGION• SCIENCE• SELF-HELP• SOCIAL SCIENCE• SPORTS & RECREATION• STUDY AIDS• TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING• TRANSPORTATION• TRAVEL• TRUE CRIME

http://www.bisg.org/what-we-do-20-73-bisacsubject-headings-2008-edition.php

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InspirationPatron-driven model

Why do patrons prefer to browse/buy from bookstores?

– Accessibility– Familiar subject

headings– Comfortable areas– Attractive spaces– Browsing allowed

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Inspiration from Maricopa County Library System-Arizona

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Motivation

Lost in the stacks

Opening up the space

Starting fresh

Configuring new space

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Final Layout

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Perspiration

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• Volunteers helped to box up over 500 boxes

• Coming up with our spine label standard

• Re-labeling our non-fiction spine labels

• Changing records• Where should we put

the new categories?

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Justification

• Statistical data to support • Patrons love the new

layout of the library• Patrons love the ability to

look at the sections and find what they are looking for

• Shelving is easier• No conflict with

consortium/just a change in local call number

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2008 2010

2978 5266

35038

56981

Change in Circulation

Non-fiction circula-tion

Total circulation

Year

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Flexibility & Adaptability

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• Watching patron traffic patterns to best arrange collections

• Using merchandising techniques to best display collections

• Signs, signs, signs…

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Information

• Webinar by National Book Network http://pdfs.nbnbooks.com/BI/SAC/BISACWebinar.pdf

• Book Industry Standard Group http://www.bisg.org/

• Book publishers are putting categories on backs of books http://waltshiel.com/2009/09/14/to-bisac-or-not-to-bisac/

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