We label the front but we also have these dandy roll out shelves so we can shelve face out that make browsing a breeze.

Out collection is right at about 1000 titles but they are getting checked out less and less as patrons steam and download more.

Mark

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 5:56 PM Don Priest via Michlib-l <michlib-l@mcls.org> wrote:

I'd like to pick some brains on managing our music CD collection. We've got thousands of them, and they're only broken up by genre and artist/band first letter (example: Metallica is under Rock/Pop M, as is Megadeth, John Mellencamp, etc). They're labelled the same, and only on the front of the CD case, so the collection is a pain to search through. The call number isn't necessarily a problem, I just need to figure out how to label everything in a way that makes our music more accessible. So, what I'd like to know is

1. What labels do you place on your music CDs that make them easy to find?
2. Do those labels exactly match the call number? (I'm considering abbreviating labels to keep them short and uniform, but I'd like to retain the descriptiveness of call numbers).

I appreciate any and all ideas and suggestions, and, if there's interest, I'll share the compiled answers.

Donald Priest
Director
Southgate Veterans Memorial Library
14680 Dix-Toledo Rd.
Southgate MI 48195
734-258-3002
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