The SALS staff is surrounded by books. There are new books being processed, books being sorted for the delivery and Advanced Reader Copies.  I asked the SALS staff to share with me their favorite book, their worst book and their guilty pleasure book read this year. The question that seemed to be the easiest to answer was worst book.  Included in this category: “Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown, “Fool” by Christopher Moore and the refrain - life is too short to finish reading a bad book.
Youth and Teen Brown Bag Lunch
Bring your own lunch, SRP ideas and other topics.
Coffee, tea and water will be available and I will provide dessert.
Please RSVP so I know that there is still interest in getting together.
Thanks,
Jennifer
Dewey or not?
The Albany Public Library will no longer use the Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC). Libraries throughout the country are rethinking DDC. A recent survey listed some reasons libraries should abandon the DDC.  Some of the results were: Patrons may have trouble understanding the online catalog, some patrons feel intimidated by the DDC and some patrons like to go straight to the shelves and they find that the DDC doesn’t pull topics together as well as the bookstore model (which, by the way has 52 categories for nonfiction).
When serving our communities, does better signage help? Does the bookstore model serve the customer better? Do libraries use the DDC for library staff?Â
Happy Holidays
Sara