[Michlib-l] Call numbers & labeling for music CDs

[Jake Rynicki]

Hey Don, its Jake here at Romulus (not State Farm lol) our collection is relatively small (about 6 shelves of CDs). We just don't get people taking out music that much. So take everything with a nice heaping pinch of salt. However, we label the top left of the CD cover and the side. For example, a cover label for a Katy Perry CD would say: 

CD 
POP/ROCK 
PERRY 

and on the side we have CD PER (2 lines). 

When the pages shelve them back they can see the front label with genre. The sections are marked for patrons and they would simply search by looking for Perry in the Pop Section. So they see CD PER. It works for our library. Some may hate the two label system but our section is never in disarray. Patrons find them with ease and pages shelve them with ease. We label our music sections so patrons can look by genre then look for artist name with call number. The sections we have our Classical, Country, Easy Listening, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop/Rock, Rap/R&B, Religious, and Soundtrack. 

Lastly, depending on the cases you use for CDs it can limit how much you put on the call number. I find with a CD the first 3 letters of artist name are still large enough for anyone to read. 

You could also implement what Melvindale use to do. I worked there before Romulus. They used the color tape at the top of the side to denote genre. Each genre had a color and they simply put musician name on call number. Red was classical, blue was jazz, white was country, and so on. Two years I've been at Romulus and I can still see that tape lol. I would not go with it myself because it wears over time and peels off. Just thought I'd mention that system as well. 

Best luck! 

Jake Rynicki 
Head of Adult Services and Outreach 
Romulus Public Library 


From: "Michlib" <michlib-l at mcls.org> 
To: "Michlib" <michlib-l at mcls.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 5:55:20 PM 
Subject: [Michlib-l] Call numbers & labeling for music CDs 

I'd like to pick some brains on managing our music CD collection. We've got thousands of them, and they're only broken up by genre and artist/band first letter (example: Metallica is under Rock/Pop M, as is Megadeth, John Mellencamp, etc). They're labelled the same, and only on the front of the CD case, so the collection is a pain to search through. The call number isn't necessarily a problem, I just need to figure out how to label everything in a way that makes our music more accessible. So, what I'd like to know is 

1. What labels do you place on your music CDs that make them easy to find? 
2. Do those labels exactly match the call number? (I'm considering abbreviating labels to keep them short and uniform, but I'd like to retain the descriptiveness of call numbers). 

I appreciate any and all ideas and suggestions, and, if there's interest, I'll share the compiled answers. 

Donald Priest 
Director 
Southgate Veterans Memorial Library 
14680 Dix-Toledo Rd. 
Southgate MI 48195 
734-258-3002 

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