Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to show that the method of zoning an open shelf floor with a popular library area is more reasonable and effective at public libraries. According to this method an open shelf floor is divided into two zones at public libraries. One is an “active zone” which consists of a popular library area with a children's book area, a newspaper and magazines' area and an AV materials' area. The other is a “quiet zone” which consists of other adults' book area with a reference area. In this paper, the results are as follows: There are two ways to arrange adults' books in public libraries in Japan. One is to arrange adults' books in NDC numerical order is to arrange some books selected from adults' books arranged in the order. Especially, in the latter, many libraries select and arrange only books of <59 Domestic arts and sciences> in NDC, but, recently some of public libraries select and arrange books according to themes of our daily life and form a zone with either a magazine's area or a children's book area, or both of them. This fact shows that users have demands for increasing popular library books and for providing an active zone. Some themes of collections in a popular library were grouped by researching how to be arranging the practical books at bookstores. They consist of a daily life, a social life, hobbies and amusements, and so on.
DOI: 10.3130/aija.74.751
Author: Toshiro KITAOKA
Institution: National Institute of Technology, Ariake College
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2021086632