My main project (on top of the Preparation Project) this summer has been working with the audio CD collection here at the Fennell Music Library of over 600 disks. We are changing the call numbers (currently accession numbers) to the ANSCR system.
You may ask: what's the ANSCR system?
Well, let me (and my handy dandy internet sources) tell you.
This lovely website gives a very good overview of how to utilize such a system. Basically, we're making the collection a lot more browse-able, as we are hoping to move all the CDs out from closed stacks and into the listening library.
As you can imagine, there's a lot of.. opinion involved with all of these. What I may think of as "popular" music, may not be to another intern. Thus, we enter a bit of the grey areas of this method. Basically, we, as a staff, are more concerned with getting the project complete before we go back and make any major changes/tweaks this way.
We started by putting the new numbers into a shared Google Spreadsheet. But since that wasn't getting done quickly enough, we've now moved to putting the call numbers directly into WorkFlows. What's been nice, is that my fellow intern and I have taken turns imputing each others' call numbers. We were able to catch mistakes and learn/discuss each others' methods.
300 done. 300 to go. Oye.
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