question for library people
I know multiple people who know about how libraries are run! (Being a librarian was a dream when i was a tot. I had romantic fantasies about a life of solitude, dedicated to dusty stacks of wisdom-filled books. Ah, romance! But i never followed up on that, somehow, and now i am without a clue as to my vocation.)
It strikes me that said people, who followed up on their calling to librarianship. might be able to help me with a puzzle i'm presented with at Free Geek. We have a small library of cast-off computer books. We are cataloging them with OpenBiblio and shelving them according to their Library of Congress numbers. But we haven't figured out what to do with books that have no such number.
There's also the problem, or semi-problem, that our books are all computer-related, so the LoC numbers (largely limited to QA* and TK*) don't really create particularly useful or obvious "sections" in our library. Love to hear any suggestions about that, too, since the volunteers who work in the library do not in general have the knowledge necessary to create or shelve according to more thematic categories.
It strikes me that said people, who followed up on their calling to librarianship. might be able to help me with a puzzle i'm presented with at Free Geek. We have a small library of cast-off computer books. We are cataloging them with OpenBiblio and shelving them according to their Library of Congress numbers. But we haven't figured out what to do with books that have no such number.
There's also the problem, or semi-problem, that our books are all computer-related, so the LoC numbers (largely limited to QA* and TK*) don't really create particularly useful or obvious "sections" in our library. Love to hear any suggestions about that, too, since the volunteers who work in the library do not in general have the knowledge necessary to create or shelve according to more thematic categories.