LBCC LIBRARY UPDATE LU 18 February 7, 2004 by Henry DuBois

Library Reorganizes Magazines by Call Number

Last semester students looking for recent paper copies of Business Week in the library would simply walk into the library's periodical area and look under "B." All the journals were filed alphabetically by their title, Business Week under B, Motor Trend under M, and so on. Over the winter break, though, these periodicals have been reorganized and they are now filed, like the books in the library, by Library of Congress call number. So Business Week is found on the periodical shelves under HF 5001 .B892. Why is this an improvement? Why do students need to find and write down long, unintuitive strings of letters and numbers when it was so easy for them before to walk right to the title they were looking for? LBCC Library, like our partner the University Library at CSULB, changed to classifying our magazines so that they would be grouped together on the shelves according to subject. So when one goes to HF 5001 .B892 for Business Week, she/he also finds Forbes (HF 5001 .F6), Office Technology (HF 5547 .A2), Fortune (HF 5001 .F7), Business 2.0 (HF 5548.32 .B87), and lots of other business-related titles close by. Students seeking the latest articles on a subject may want to browse all the publications on that field, and arranging the periodicals by call number makes this quick and convenient. Library users can locate call numbers for journals easily by looking in the Voyager online catalog (http://lib.lbcc.edu/ , click on "books") or in the LBCC Periodicals Directory available at the reference desk. For more information contact: Nenita Buenaventura, Access Services Librarian, (562) 938-4576 nbuena@lbcc.edu See list of topics and their call numbers