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Show University of Utah Library Bulletin Page 3 December 1, 1967 Director of the Middle East Center Dr. Khosrow Mostofi, who is the initiator of the book catalog projects, plans this to be the first of a series of book catalogs of the Center's holdings. Following the Arabic catalog will be one listing of our Persian holdings, then our Hebrew, and finally our extensive holdings of Arabic materials which as yet are not catalogued. At some future date, it is hoped we will publish a catalog of the papyri held in the Middle East collection. It may well be the case, that the University of Utah Libraries will achieve its greatest recognition through its special collections. The Distribution of Classified Materials in the New Library and Learning Center Among the numerous advantages of the new Library and Learning Center will be the organization of the several collections which support the subject reference services. With some exceptions, the patrón will find all the materials of a particular classifi-cation shelved in one place. Until now, this has not been the case at University of Utah Libraries. Students using our catalog could find books with the same classifica-tion numbers in every collection. A thorough search of the literature of a particular subject required going to each of the branch libraries. Students could find Social Sciences material represented in every collection including Engineering and Physical Sciences, the Fine Arts branch, Business branch, Education branch and even in the highly specialized Mathematics branch. The criteria for assigning a book to a particular collection was the source of the request, e.g., if a social work faculty member requested a book, it went to that branch even if classification suggested the book belonged in the Engineering or the Fine Arts collections. In the new Library and Learning Center, a centralized circulation system serving all of the collections dictates to some extent a much more favorable situation from the patrón's point-of-view. He will be able to count on finding in the Engineering and Physical Sciences collection on Level One all the materials classified in Dewey classes 500 - 569, 600 - 609, 620 - 629, 660 - 699, 770 - 779, and Library of Congress classes GA - GC, Q - QE, and T - TT. One of the above assignments, at first thought, may cause a little consternation, Some patrons might expect our books on photography, for example, to be in the Fine Arts collection on Level Four. It is agreed that some of class 770 - 779 and TR do deal with composition, but the major portion treat such subjects as photographic optics and tech-niques in the manufacture of photosensitive surfaces. All of them were therefore al-located to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Library. We believe it will be less confusing to the patrón to find all of photography in one place, and even the patrón who is interested in photography from the fine arts approach will not mind the short elevator ride from the fourth level to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Library on Level One to find his materials. |