Many of our part-time students have interesting day jobs. Ellen Dutton works as a school librarian in a great environment that has encouraged her passion for information literacy. Here’s a stop animation she’s made to give students an overview of DDC, which I’m sharing here for the benefits of the cataloguers whom I know read this blog regularly. Do click through to see her videos on other library topics.
Posts Tagged ‘classification’
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
January 14, 2009As expected, Keith Manley’s talk last night to Cilip in London, ‘Love, blood and teddy bears : the rise of the twopenny libraries,’ was fabulous. There’s a good summary on Tom Roper’s Weblog today, and as with all Cilip in London talks, there’s bound to be a write-up forthcoming in London Clip.
I was struck by two things. Firstly, I was really impressed that Keith Manley could present such interesting information in such an entertaining way when most of it was drawn from government documents. As an erstwhile civil servant, I know just how dry some of his sources really are, and was amazed at how he managed to breathe life into them. And laughter. The audience was spell-bound.
Secondly, it struck me how little I know about how these commercial libraries were organised. I mean, clearly there would be some sort of rough subject groupings, but it struck me that this would probably be approached from a very different angle from the way municipal public libraries were classifying their stock at this time (1930s-50s, with a few stragglers lasting into the 1960s). Read the rest of this entry ?
