[78-L] shelf-order of your 78s [was: First 78]

[Peter Fraissinet]

Does anyone else but me shelve they're records from right-to-left, rather than the usual left-to-right? 

At at time when I was moving discs a lot from shelves to boxes and back again, I found that I wanted the order to be front to back in the box.  Seems natural, especially with LPs where you flip through them.  But this is the opposite of standard library wall shelf order in the USA, so I changed the wall shelf order to right-to-left.  

It took a little mental adjustment (since I don't read Hebrew?) but I'm sold on it and will never have to reverse the order of alphabetized discs in a box again when they go to shelf.

Peter Fraissinet
West Danby NY
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From: Cary Ginell [soundthink at live.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 12:34 PM
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Subject: Re: [78-L] First 78

Well, the first cabinet you come upon when entering my record room is the pre-war hillbilly 78s. I file them alphabetically by artist. Artists are grouped in separate sections if I have more than 5 by one artist. For artists with less than 5 discs, I file them by letter. So the first one in the miscellaneous "A" category is "Footprints in the Snow"/"New Birmingham Jail" by Big Slim Aliff on Decca 5316.
On the opposite side of the room, the upper-left-hand shelf starts with pre-war blues and the first record there is "Bell Cow Blues"/"Boe Hog Blues" by Texas Alexander on OKeh 8563 (in pretty nice shape, I might add).

Cary Ginell