I received some very good comments for my query about cataloging the books in our museum library. Thanks very much to all of you.
After much discussion, we decided to use Library of Congress. My last museum, a small local history museum, used Dewey Decimal in order to be compatible with the public library and the local school. It worked very well for us. However, as an archaeology museum, we thought it would be more beneficial to use the same system as the nearby University of Nevada Las Vegas, that has an archaeology program and has done field schools in Overton.
Jerrie
Jerrie Clarke
Director
Lost City Museum
PO Box 807
Overton, NV 89040
(702) 397-2193
http://museums.nevadaculture.org
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On Tue, 6/24/14, Jerrie Clarke [log in to unmask] [SmallMuseums] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: [AASLH-SmallMuseums] Museum Library cataloguing
To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 2:41 PM
We're a small archaeology museum with a nice
small reference library. The books in the library have
never been cataloged fully and never put in the museum's
database. The curator and I are discussing using a library
catalog number as well as an object id number to specify the
topic and help us organize them on the shelves. Her last
museum used Library of Congress and mine used Dewey Decimal
in order to be part of the town's library consortium.
Library of Congress is very complicated and most of the
books at my last museum seem to begin with the same Dewey
Decimal number. I'm wondering if other small museums
use one of these systems or just give the books a object id
number; or do something entirely different. Any
recommendations?
Jerrie Clarke
Director
Lost City Museum
PO Box 2507
Overton, NV 89040
(702) 397-2193
http://museums.nevadaculture.org
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