BACKROOM FILE SYSTEM

• Need to hold checkout cards
  • History of Checkout Cards
    
  • Catalog cards for every entity
    
• User History Pages
  • Make physical process, we load into computer system later
    
  • Personal Information, Card # charged if item not returned
    
  • User joining date, all access of

Catalog Card

**Goals

1. To enable person to find a book, record, entity
   
2. To show an overview of what a library or gallery has
   
3. Assist in choice of selection **
   1. Character of selection
      
   2. Edition of selection
      
   3. Impact of selection
      
4. Goal is to ensure library users become skillful at finding information and thus foster feeling of confidence, independence, and ownership

Fields

• Author
  
• Title
  
• Keywords
  
• Subject
  
• Dates
  
• IF DIGITAL include directory pathname

KOS (Knowledge Organization System)

Systems
_Universal Decimal System
_Dewey Classification System
_Library of Congress Classification System
_Bliss Classification System

(Can be excel sheets for now ?)

Location

• Room
  • On-Display
    
  • Backroom / Office / Cabinets
    
• Shelf ID
  Season
  
• Ecosystem Name / Abbreviation
  
• Year
  
• Semester
  Category
  
• Subject area
  
• Sub-group, “-N”, or Second Subject Area
  Publisher
  
• Artist Name
  
• “-N” if part of larger collective
  Accession Type
  
• Donation
  
• Class
  
• Event
  
• Showcase / Art
  
• Series
  • “X.X”
    Framework Association
    
• Full Treatment
  
• Just Origin
  
• Just Organism
  
• Just Orgasm