Reorganizing the Audiovisuals and adding pictures to the SCS Library page

Our library has an aisle reserved for audiovisual materials. Here patrons can find videos, DVDs, audio tapes, and playaway books. One of our recent projects has been the reorganizing of those materials to make them easier for our patrons to find things. Currently, we are in the process of separating the educational videos (all coded with Dewey Decimal Classification -- DDC -- numbers and shelved in Dewey number order) and the general videos which will be shelved in alphabetical order by title. What will this mean for our patrons? If a staff member comes in looking for a DVD on some educational topic, he or she can use the OPAC search to find the DDC number and go to the AV Aisle, look on the left-hand side where those videos are listed in number order beginning with 000 in the upper left corner of the aisle and ending with 999 in the last shelf on the bottom far end of the shelves on the same side. Other DVDs/videos will be shelved on the right when standing at the computers and will have a letter at the top of the spine and call number at the bottom, example Superbook will have a large "S" at the top of the spine, and "DVD Sup" at the bottom. All biography videos will also be shelved together alphabetically and will be in a separate section at the far end of the "other" video aisle on the right hand side. This is a work in progress, and though the videos are already reshelved in this order, the labeling is not finished yet. Please be patient and bear with us as we complete the relabeling.

Another new library feature: photos on the SCS Library page! If you haven't seen them already, you will want to check the SCS website, log in and go the the Library page where new student pictures have been posted. We will be changing those pictures out regularly, so be sure to check back every week or so.