Recently there have been some interesting ways books have been shelved: this week is no different and perhaps not very surprising…especially with books that have been used a lot.
I’m not sure if it’s because folks are afraid to check things out so they read them in the library and stash them in interesting locations, or they pull books off the shelves, think they are going to check them out, change their minds and decide to help library staff by re-shelving books.
So here the two examples I’ve found today whilst looking in the stacks:
PS3554.I319 P57 2008 shelved as PS3559.I319 P57 2008 –I’m not sure how a 4 looks like a 9, but I guess it just goes to show that anything is possible. (could be of course that this particular book has had 44 checkouts and 4 times marked as used)
F394.G2 L37 1999 shelved as F592.G2 L37 1999 and checked out at least 22 times–The missing book was supposed to be shelved with the Texan history section but instead it was hanging out with the Missourian. At least the 9’s are correct right? F’s are always interesting to search for since the numbers are almost always mixed up, you will most likely always end up virtually shelf-reading the whole F call number ranges to find them…or they could be with the oversized (labeled in our library as "f" and "ff").
Happy Searching folks!
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