I have followed WBF for only a few years. While I am not a frequent contributor, I check the new posts often and appreciate the knowledge and experience of those who do contribute. Therefore, I am writing to seek your experience and guidance with respect to a question of organization. While I have not counted or inventoried my record albums, I estimate that I have 1,000 or more albums. I have them organized alphabetically by artist (or, in the case of classical music, sometimes by composer) within the following categories: (i) pop, blues and rock; (ii) jazz; and (iii) classical. Additionally, I set aside separate areas of my bookcases for large box sets and specialty pressings such as Classic Records Red Box, UHQR, Analogue Productions Box Sets, Mobile Fidelity One-Step, Supersense, ERC, and Test Pressings. I am subscribed to the new Analogue Production Atlantic Records 75 Series which perhaps could lend itself to yet another segregated area. The pop, blues and rock section is the largest section and, within that section, I incorporated alphabetical dividers.
I am not sure if this is the best way to organize my collection going forward. While it looks somewhat spiffy to arrange similar looking specialty albums together, the collection is becoming somewhat disjointed. I am having new shelving installed and would like to use this opportunity to consider how others have arranged their albums. I am thinking that I might eliminate the segregated sections for box sets and specialty pressings and incorporate and intermingle all albums alphabetically (including box sets and specialty pressings) within their respective genre categories.
How do you organize your albums and/or how would you want to organize your albums if you started over?
My apologies if there is already a thread on this subject; I only found that there is a thread on cataloging a record collection. That (i.e., cataloging) will be my next project.
Thank you in advance for your input and ideas.
Nathan
I am not sure if this is the best way to organize my collection going forward. While it looks somewhat spiffy to arrange similar looking specialty albums together, the collection is becoming somewhat disjointed. I am having new shelving installed and would like to use this opportunity to consider how others have arranged their albums. I am thinking that I might eliminate the segregated sections for box sets and specialty pressings and incorporate and intermingle all albums alphabetically (including box sets and specialty pressings) within their respective genre categories.
How do you organize your albums and/or how would you want to organize your albums if you started over?
My apologies if there is already a thread on this subject; I only found that there is a thread on cataloging a record collection. That (i.e., cataloging) will be my next project.
Thank you in advance for your input and ideas.
Nathan