THE END

The main purpose of this blog was to share information regarding the moving of books from the old Zastrau system to the Dewey Decimal Classification System (DDC). As mentioned previously, on this blog, the moving of books have been completed in June. The spacing on the levels has also been corrected and we completed the marking of the rows on each level (see the photos below). This means that the purpose of this blog has been fulfilled and this will be the last entry.

However, it would not be fair to end this blog without a word of thanks to the following:

-          The Dewey Project Team: for your hard work, dedication and creative ideas.

-          To the 12 temporary staff members: this project would not have been completed if it was not for you and the effort you have put into this project. Thank you SO much for your hard work the past 10 months. A big cheer to all of you for a job well done!

-          The Library Staff: Thank you to the DFC staff who came to assist us in June. To the APK staff, thank you for assisting the clients in finding books, explaining the situation to them and sometimes bearing the brunt of angry clients.  We know that it has been extremely difficult at times and thank you for your commitment to the project.

-          Library Leadership: thank you for your guidance and support.

-          UJ staff and students: thank you so much for your patience during the move. We know that at times it was difficult to find books and it should be much easier now. We sincerely hope that you find the international classification system easy to use.

I would like to end off with this quote of Walt Disney:

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Day 54 - 4 July: No more moves

I am pleased to announce that phase two (the vertical move) was completed on Friday, two weeks ahead of schedule. This means that as from today books will no longer be moved from one level to another.

Books are now arranged as follows:

LEVEL	DEWEY No.
1	000 - 226
2	227 - 354
3	355 - 399 & 500 - 599
4	400 - 499 & 700 - 899
5	600 - 699 & 900 - 999

We will spend the next two weeks getting the spacing right on each level and after that has been done, Dewey shelf marks will be printed and put up on each row. We would like to finish these two tasks by 18 July.

Days 52 & 53 - 30 June & 1 July

The next two days all books with Dewey numbers from 616 to 621.9999 will be moved from level 3 to level 5. This means that as from Monday all books with a Dewey number in the 600 class can be found on level 5.

A large number of books on level 4 have been relabeled the past few days. We will spent the next two days sorting these books and shelving them on the relevant levels.

Day 51

Books with Dewey numbers from 610 to 616.5450 will be moved from level 3 to level 6 today. These are books medicine, human anatomy & physiology and pharmacology.

We will also continue today to put Dewey shelf numbers on books on level 4 with only Zastrau spine labels.

Day 50 - 27 June

The last move from level 5 to level 2 takes place today with the moving of books on culture & institutions, social groups and political science (Dewey numbers: 300 - 320)

Seeing that we have sufficient space on level 5 to accommodate the whole of the 600 class, we will start moving books from 600 to 620 from level 3 to level 5 over the next few days. Today we will be moving books on technology and medicine (Dewey numbers: 600 - 610).

Day 49 - 24 June

No books will be moved today only temporary shelves built on some of the levels will be removed.

When the power of love
overcomes the love of power,
the world will know peace.
~ Jimi Hendrix ~

Nine months ago.........

Nine months ago we started with the first phase to arrange the books in our library from Zastrau to Dewey. April Mahlangu took some photos on the day that I would like to share with you as well: