Shelf-absorbed: nine ways to arrange your bookshelves.
Whether you alphabetise your books, hoard them or make sure your most intellectual tomes are in sight for Zoom calls, these displays reveal a lot ...
Tim Dowling
Me.
Fiction
1. Genre.
2. Authors last name.
3. Series title.
Non fiction
1. Subject
2. Book title
Reference
1. Spine color
@corlin Dewey Decimal or go home.
@TheAbbotTrithemius @corlin Funny story: My bestie @slirt was in Chicago late last year. And, of course, being a librarian, he went to the Harold Washington main library. At which point he told me that they used LC classification. That... is rare. Public libraries use Dewey, for the most part, aside from the ones who have eschewed Dewey and replaced it with a bookstore-type cataloging system.
Yes with LC being used exclusively by academic (college and university) libraries.
I worked at a few different libraries, right after college, both public and university and liked both systems just loved everything about libraries really and still think they're amazing.
@TheAbbotTrithemius @LiberalLibrarian @corlin @slirt
💯
In another life I would like to just live in a library.
@ATXJane @TheAbbotTrithemius @LiberalLibrarian @slirt
With a full time, well paid librarian on staff.
I would call her the gardener of the realm.
@corlin @ATXJane @TheAbbotTrithemius @LiberalLibrarian @slirt
Well paid? This is an outrage and cannot be!
@MelissaHDavis @ATXJane @TheAbbotTrithemius @LiberalLibrarian @slirt
Ok.
I missed this.
Don’t you think librarians should be well paid?
@corlin @ATXJane @TheAbbotTrithemius @LiberalLibrarian @slirt
Absolutely. But most libraries' budgets don't -- MLS necessary, starting @ 32k
@MelissaHDavis @corlin @TheAbbotTrithemius @LiberalLibrarian @slirt
We know that typically a job's social status and compensation are directly correlated. In my inner universe, this changes. Value, worth, and contribution correlate with pay. (And doctors have to actually listen with respect and care to women and BIPOC.)
@ATXJane @corlin @TheAbbotTrithemius @LiberalLibrarian @slirt
I like that universe.
I am a librarian married to a teacher, so you know we make the bug bucks.
@MelissaHDavis I'm very well remunerated. But, LA County and a strong union. When I belonged to a library job listserv, I'd get postings for a Librarian II position in Fayetteville. Salary? $47K. I was a Librarian I at the time and making almost twice as much. @corlin @ATXJane @TheAbbotTrithemius @slirt
@LiberalLibrarian @corlin @ATXJane @TheAbbotTrithemius @slirt
I was 15 years a librarian before I made that.
@MelissaHDavis Ugh, that's awful. IIRC, I began at 54k. Living in LA has many benefits, that being one of them. @corlin @ATXJane @TheAbbotTrithemius @slirt
@LiberalLibrarian @corlin @ATXJane @TheAbbotTrithemius
While the cost of living is lower in my part of VA, offering $32k for a grad degree is ridiculous. It's very unfortunately like that in much of the country -- PT library associates make about $15; you can make more at fast food.
Librarians are important in leveling the digital divide and protecting the freedom to learn, but they aren't paid as if they were.
Stepping down off my library ladder now (no soapbox for me).
@MelissaHDavis Agree with this in its totality. @corlin @ATXJane @TheAbbotTrithemius
@TheAbbotTrithemius @LiberalLibrarian @corlin @slirt
It really depends on the depth of your collection. If there are a few books on many different subjects, then DD will do.
If you specialize on a topic and have 350 books on knitting (don't look at me), then LC would be a better choice. DD would end up decimalizing around the back of the book for such a collection.
Most public libraries use DD and most academic libraries LC. Cool note: LC is based off of organizational work by Jefferson.