The Wells County Public Library has survived 2 years without Dewey and no regrets!  It could not have happened without board and staff buy-in.  What started out as a project about changing numbers to words, became a whole new way of organizing, classifying, labeling and thinking about the library’s entire collection.  The decision to ditch Dewey took much longer than the actual process of developing a new classification system and relabeling more than 85,000 items.  Stephanie Davis, Director of the Wells County Public Library will share their experience.  Bring all your questions and hear how one library made the change.  

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 Presenters:

Stephanie Davis just celebrated her 30th year at the Wells County Public Library.  Starting as a children's librarian, she has served as the library's director for the last 19 years.  Stephanie is presently serving on the IPLA board and as the assistant treasurer of ILF.  Her list of community involvements include serving on the board of the Chamber of Commerce and Bluffton NOW for community revitalization.  Working to make WCPL a warm, welcoming, and inviting place that meets her community's needs is her passion. 

Paula Newcom is the Northeast Regional Coordinator at the Indiana State Library.

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