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Perhaps only in that books are sometimes lost for years due to being put back in the wrong place! ‘Defragmenting’ the shelf space in a public library is a long
by StringyBob 5y ago
Perhaps only in that books are sometimes lost for years due to being put back in the wrong place! ‘Defragmenting’ the shelf space in a public library is a long and painful task, both for when there is a lack of room and for when things get out of order!
- paulmd 5y agohas anyone considered adding a series of color bands to the labels for coarse/medium/fine grained placement information? For example "coarse" is nonfiction, "medium" is travel, and "fine" is Bermuda, or whatever. If you see a book with a red label in the blue section, or whatever, you know it's misplaced. If the labels are placed on the book at a similar location, then any book that is out of its proper would be significantly more obvious without having to resort to reading the label of every single book. Of course the techie solution would be to barcode every book and then have a robot on each shelf that scans the barcodes after hours...
- numpad0 5y agoBooks come in all sizes and shapes, so scanning that color coded labels is still going to be a pain...
- paulmd 5y agoindex them from the bottom of the book spine - if they're always 0.5" off the bottom of the shelf, it doesn't matter how tall the book is.
- a_e_k 5y agoI've usually seen this done with colored dot stickers affixed near to or on the library label on the spine of the book.