Today while I was
searching, I found some crazy random miss-shelving errors.
In our library the call number beginning with S (agricultural
history and agricultural sciences) are shelved with the D’s and E’s (World and
American history). Today I found an S in
with the E’s. This further stresses my
point of searching all of the different letters on a floor and not just within
the beginning letter. Examples: if S, U, V, D, E are shelved on a floor and you
are looking for a DB don’t just look for it in the wide range of Ds, look in
the S’s, U’s, V’s, and E’s too. Even
though a DB would end up in an SB or even an E is a rare occurrence, it has
been happening a lot lately.
Further stressing my point of looking in other letters
if shelved together on a floor. See the
below picture for the craziness of miss-shelving:
As you can see there are NA's and PN's mixed in with the LB's. While the PN's are shelved on another floor (seems as if someone was using them and then just put them back on the shelve...but beginning letters aside, at least they are numerically in order). NA's and LB's are shelved on the same floor, so it is very important to look in every letter category on a floor.
Happy searching!
