The next step – the Makeover from Accessible Collections to Attractive Collection

The National Library Board (NLB) of Singapore through its network of public libraries around the nation provides trusted services that are professional and engaging to its patrons. In its pursuit of life -long learning, NLB continuously improves its services to its users and in this regard has recently revamped two of its public library’s collections namely library@orchard and Early Literacy Library (ELL). It has made an audacious attempt to go beyond facilitating access to our collections to engaging our patrons by providing attractive collections to engage our patrons by providing attractive collections – collections that are organized by simple, intuitive categories. This paper would explore the prototype attempt to go beyond facilitating access to our collections and it describes how in order to enhance the browsability and findability of the collection, an innovative approach of applying hybrid subject categorization, that is using a standard call number with Dewey Decimal Classification and the assigned design clusters and subject categories was adopted. It will also explain some of the learning points our librarians experienced in creating an alternative means of classification.