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Open Shelves Classification

Thingology (LibraryThing´s ideas blog) ska skapa ett nytt klassificeringssystem!

The vision. The Open Shelves Classification should be:

• Free. Free both to use and to change, with all schedules and assignments in the public domain and easily accessible in bulk format. Nothing other than common consent will keep the project at LibraryThing. Indeed, success may well entail it leaving the site entirely.
• Modern. The OSC should map to current mental models--knowing these will eventually change, but learning from the ways other systems have and haven't grown, and hoping to remain useful for some decades, at least.
• Humble. No system--and least of all a one-dimensional shelf order--can get at "reality." The goal should be to create a something limited and humble--a "pretty good" system, a "mostly obvious" system, even a "better than the rest" system--that allows library patrons to browse a collection physically and with enjoyment.
• Collaboratively written. The OSC itself should be written socially--slowly, with great care and testing--but socially. (I imagine doing this on the LibraryThing Wiki.)
• Collaboriately assigned. As each level of OSC is proposed and ratified, members will be invited to catalog LibraryThing's books according to it. (I imagine using LibraryThing's fielded bibliographic wiki, Common Knowledge.)

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Debatt i BBL!

Saxat från Biblioteksbladet  nr 3 2008

Same shit different code

Hyllsignum fotat på Lidingö Stadsbibliotek [Fotograf: Karin Wändahl]

Biblioteken skakar i sina grundvalar

Ett nytt folkbibliotek i Gilbert planerar att helt sonika strunta i Dewey Systemet när de ska ställa upp sina böcker på hyllorna. Det verkar som om de tänker använda beskrivande ord som deras besökare förstår istället för den där långa raddan med siffor. Det är lite som om vi på mitt bibliotek skulle märka om hylla WO med KIRURGI istället, makes sense på nåt vis.
Men kanske inte för alla. En läsare (bibliotekarie till yrket) jagar upp sig rätt rejält;

a library is NOT a bookstore, nor are we supposed to be--we serve different functions. And, thank goodness, we're not responsible for serving double latte mocha frappacinos and cheesecake squares--yet. When we do, I'm hanging up my bookcart and going

Varför inte cheesecake och lattes? Det är ju jättegott!!

[via Library Chrunch]

   

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