Library Indexing System
My stint as a librabrian was a short one, was a library assistant in school for 2 whole week when i was in Standard 5. Didn't do much though, helped the librarian tidy up the library, stacking up books and occassionally get to stamp someone's books when they check it out. cards are stacked based on students' names. simple! i got an icecream at the end of the 2 weeks. cheap labour!
i have been given a task by my boss recently to index the company's mini library. i supposed i could just take the easy approach and just type out all the books, arrange them in basic order (based on topics / heights)... and leave the excel spreadsheet somewhere in a flat file somewhere near the bookshelves so that others could refer to it. or i can come out with a slightly proper indexing system.
Which reminds me of one of the episodes of Greys Anatomy which i watched recently. for those who didn't know, i like the show a lot and it can teach you a lot of things which could be non-medical too. anyway, back track, in 1 episode, Christina was at Burke's apartment and was aghast to find that Burke has given her the keys to his apartment. She was complaining to Meridith that she's a bit freak out by Dr Burke's orderliness, that even his books on his bookshelf is in Dewey system.
That got me thinking, perhaps i should look at indexing those books in the office the same way. Anyway, checked out my wikipedia website on DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification) which leads me to UDC (Universal Decimal Classification).
I think i'm going to try UDC for a bit and see how i like it. Perhaps i'll even adjust a bit since basically the books here are either related to plantation, legal / statutory compliances, accounting / finance (a major portion of it are annual reports). there are a few odd ones like a very dinasouric Microsoft Excel guide book (how old? think 1998).
ok... back to work... i think i have spend enough time today for indexing. now to some real work and i'll look into this again later.
i have been given a task by my boss recently to index the company's mini library. i supposed i could just take the easy approach and just type out all the books, arrange them in basic order (based on topics / heights)... and leave the excel spreadsheet somewhere in a flat file somewhere near the bookshelves so that others could refer to it. or i can come out with a slightly proper indexing system.
Which reminds me of one of the episodes of Greys Anatomy which i watched recently. for those who didn't know, i like the show a lot and it can teach you a lot of things which could be non-medical too. anyway, back track, in 1 episode, Christina was at Burke's apartment and was aghast to find that Burke has given her the keys to his apartment. She was complaining to Meridith that she's a bit freak out by Dr Burke's orderliness, that even his books on his bookshelf is in Dewey system.
That got me thinking, perhaps i should look at indexing those books in the office the same way. Anyway, checked out my wikipedia website on DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification) which leads me to UDC (Universal Decimal Classification).
I think i'm going to try UDC for a bit and see how i like it. Perhaps i'll even adjust a bit since basically the books here are either related to plantation, legal / statutory compliances, accounting / finance (a major portion of it are annual reports). there are a few odd ones like a very dinasouric Microsoft Excel guide book (how old? think 1998).
ok... back to work... i think i have spend enough time today for indexing. now to some real work and i'll look into this again later.
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