With learning offsite this term, the Library team continues to support students online. We are also working hard behind the scenes on a non-fiction cataloguing project which will greatly enhance the accessibility of the collection for staff and students. The traditional dewey (numerical) system for cataloguing non-fiction resources is being replaced with a genre-specific system to mirror student subjects.

This means when a student is studying a specific topic within a subject, all relevant books will be in one defined section (such as Ancient History > Egypt > Cleopatra), and the spine labels will be colour coded and worded to reflect different subjects / topics. The HSIE and CAPA collections are the first to be recatalogued in this manner.

While it is quite an extensive project, we can already see how (when students return to face-to-face teaching) the new classification system will help students find exactly what they are looking for more easily, with all relevant resources in the one place. 

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