The Oddly Shelved from Fall 2013 Semester

As you can probably tell I haven’t posted on this blog in a while and it’s because I’ve been rather busy especially in the last weeks of the last semester.

Therefore, I thought I would post some of the oddly shelved examples I found and some of you have found from last semester:

• ·         BF575.H27 G55 2006 shelved as BF575.A27 G55 2006 (Yet another great reason why you should look in the sections surrounding it as well as everything that begins with BF575 or whatever beginning part of the call number you are looking for)
• ·         HG1552.E64 D49 2011 shelved as HD1552.E64 D49 2011 (Note these are now shelved on separate floors and yet because they are both H’s they still get miss-shelved among each other…make sure you search in all of these locations even if a letter is split between 2 + floors)
• ·         TR655 .H4780 2011 shelved as TH655 .H4780 2011 (Make sure you look as if it were shelved in other locations as well as all the other photography books since that area is almost always a mess and shelving nightmare)
• ·         PQ8180.17.A73 C6813 1983 shelved as PR8180.17.A73 C6813 1983 (Note PQ and PR are on separate floors like the HD/HG example)
• ·         QC981.8.C5 O77 2009 shelved as QD981.C5 O77 2009 (Not only was it shelved in the wrong letter, the decimal was completely dropped and forgotten)
• ·         P92.U5 B7 1989 shelved between P92.U5 O44 1999 and P92.U5 R8 (I’m not even going to venture a guess as to what happened here except it happens all the time so the only thing I can guess is someone was looking at it and put it back randomly, but at least it was near where it was supposed to be?)

Happy Searching!

Looking for Titles instead of Call Numbers can be Helpful

Occasionally, when a book goes through processing, something happens where the call number might be altered ever so slightly which can cause a book to go missing.

Such is the case for the book Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law by Morrison and Wilhelm.  The call number label said HV4534 .M65 2007; however, in our catalog it said (and of course should have been) HG4534 .M65 2007.  This can also happen to any other part of the call number too.

These sorts of things happen rarely, but when they do it can be particularly difficult to search, which is why searching for the title on the spine if it is printed there can be extremely helpful.  Sometimes a book can be thin and the title is still printed on the spine so it can be helpful to spot when looking for the titles.  Luckily in the example listed, I found it by searching as I always do in each of the letters on the floor and that is always important (Searching 101 remember?)

Good luck and happy searching!