The next step – the Makeover from Accessible Collections to Attractive Collection

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The National Library Board (NLB) of Singapore through its network of public libraries around the nation provides trusted services that are professional and engaging to its patrons. In its pursuit of life -long learning, NLB continuously improves its services to its users and in this regard has recently revamped two of its public library’s collections namely library@orchard and Early Literacy Library (ELL). It has made an audacious attempt to go beyond facilitating access to our collections to engaging our patrons by providing attractive collections to engage our patrons by providing attractive collections – collections that are organized by simple, intuitive categories. This paper would explore the prototype attempt to go beyond facilitating access to our collections and it describes how in order to enhance the browsability and findability of the collection, an innovative approach of applying hybrid subject categorization, that is using a standard call number with Dewey Decimal Classification and the assigned design clusters and subject categories was adopted. It will also explain some of the learning points our librarians experienced in creating an alternative means of classification.
El National Library Board (NLB) de Singapur a través de su red de bibliotecas públicas de todo el país proporciona una serie de servicios profesionales que dan confianza y resultan muy atractivos a sus clientes. En su búsqueda de la educación permanente, el NLB mejora continuamente sus servicios a sus usuarios y en este sentido recientemente ha modernizado las colecciones de dos de sus bibliotecas públicas, más concretamente de la library@orchard y de la Early Literacy Library (ELL). Lo que se ha llevado a cabo ha sido un intento audaz de ir más allá de facilitar el acceso a nuestras colecciones y captar a nuestros clientes proporcionando colecciones atractivas – colecciones organizadas en categorías simples e intuitivas. Este artículo explora el modelo para superar el simple acceso a nuestras colecciones y describe la manera en que, para mejorar la búsqueda y recuperación de la colección, se ha aplicado una categorización híbrida por materias, que utiliza un número normalizado según la Clasificación Decimal de Dewey, agrupaciones de diseño asignadas y categorías temáticas. También se explicarán las etapas del proyecto por las que nuestros bibliotecarios han ido pasando a lo largo de esta experiencia de creación de un sistema alternativo de clasificación.

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