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Dewey Love
22/4/05 13:24I'm in cataloging, and it's taken me the entire semester to get to Dewey Decimal numbers, the rest of the semester having been spent on descriptive cataloging (i.e. making sure you transcribe the title and author and publishing info Just Right and put the right kinds of notes in) and authority files (i.e. linking together Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens but not that other Samuel Clemens over there who lived a hundred years earlier).
Most of the academic libraries use Library of Congress classification instead of Dewey, for good reason, but it tends to make one think that LC is better. In fact, Dewey is fairly nifty.
There's a call number for international relations, call it X because my notebook is at home.
America's foreign relations are X.73, 73 being the code for US that shows up in a lot of places (American history is 973).
France's foreign relations are X.44. Same deal.
America's foreign relatioons with France?
X.73044.
I like that.
We also did an example where the call number was 22 digits long. That was fun.
But that's why I'm in library science.
Most of the academic libraries use Library of Congress classification instead of Dewey, for good reason, but it tends to make one think that LC is better. In fact, Dewey is fairly nifty.
There's a call number for international relations, call it X because my notebook is at home.
America's foreign relations are X.73, 73 being the code for US that shows up in a lot of places (American history is 973).
France's foreign relations are X.44. Same deal.
America's foreign relatioons with France?
X.73044.
I like that.
We also did an example where the call number was 22 digits long. That was fun.
But that's why I'm in library science.