Idk. I think it’s just easier to rely on a specific someone whose job it is to put shit in the proper place than to hope every random person who takes a book off the shelf can put it back in the proper place. Like, I get what you’re saying. It isn’t a big ask to have people return a book after looking at it. But it’s so easy for them to put it in the wrong spot. And once it’s on the shelf, it’s much harder to notice that it’s out of place. It seems counter intuitive, but it’s more efficient to simply leave the book out after looking at it
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mlg@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Unless the library is tracking book reader stats or you actually check out the book, maybe remember how the classification system works like they were supposed to teach you in school?
Half the time I’m literally standing in front of the shelf perusing the book, it would be dumb to throw it in the book return unless I don’t know or can’t find the exact position where it came from.
thelasttoot@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
How can it be difficult to put something back where you found it anyway?
CandleTiger@programming.dev 5 days ago
Turns out that, taken as a topical behavior across the general population of library users, it’s really fucking intensely difficult.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
If you’re doing something like gathering research materials, a lot of times people will grab a bunch of stuff of the shelves at once then take it all back to a table somewhere to peruse. In that scenario it’s definitely likely you’ll forget where something went, or mix things up.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You’re depriving some poor librarian the best part of their day.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If you know how to properly reshelve the books on your own, you know who you are. Just do it. No one will care nor will anyone bother you if you aren’t causing a problem.
For everyone else, there is the dump cart.
I see these messages more as being aimed at those who don’t even know there is a system, those who do but don’t care to learn it, or some other combo of known or unknown unknowns.
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I think you should never reshelf books yourself.
For one you can’t be absolutely sure which archiving system is used in the specific library without either asking or working there, which kind of moots the point.
For another this can put back wrongly archived books back in the system. While it seems reasonable that a book is archieved correctly this does not have to be the case and therefore simply putting it back could be wrong
icelimit@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
For those that want to learn, its the Dewey decimal system.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is better simply because all bibles are listed under the letters BS
en.wikipedia.org/…/Library_of_Congress_Classifica…
icelimit@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Til. Thanks