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zengar ([personal profile] zengar) wrote2007-12-05 01:01 pm
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Library Rant

I don't care if it is primarily a research library, if it has a fiction section, it shouldn't treat it like it is a poor relation.

I know that classifying a books age range is difficult, but splitting a series back and forth randomly between adult and teen, or teen and children, is simply unacceptable.

I know that the building design encourages rotatable stands as well as standard shelves, but distributing the teen fiction section randomly between the two is unacceptable. (as in, the shelves are organized A-Z, but a selection of the books aren't there, they are on the stands instead)

I know teens are worse about putting things back in the proper place than adults are, (though not by much) but allowing the stands to achieve maximum disorganization is completely unacceptable.

Supposedly, the library has two copies of the book I was looking for, both in with a location of "check shelf." They may have been stolen, or may not have, even the librarian I asked couldn't be sure they weren't just somewhere else. No book should have four possible locations that have to be exhausted before you reach "It looks like it's been misplaced." For that matter, with this level of organization, how will they determine if they have been stolen?

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