I visited the Scottsbluff Public Library in Scottsbluff, NE on Monday and I loved their solution to the Dewey “problem”. To them, it just seemed like the right thing to do and have been doing it for years. I was told the public love it. (They also do something similar in fiction.)
If interested in doing this in your library, you can order them(well, a close version anyway) from DEMCO. They’re called “DEMCO® Sturdy Colored Shelf Markers”. Sorry, their site doesn’t allow for linking directly to a product’s page. (Hey Demco, fix that, I’m trying to sell some of your stuff here and you’re not making it easy.)
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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