There are a couple of good articles/blog posts that discuss the “discord over Dewey” as the Wall Street Journal puts it. I know I have referenced this a few times in the past so I’m not going to go into great depth in this post but it is worth reading these two articles. [...]
I’m going to post a few updates to some previous posts because I thought some people might be interested in hearing further about these topics.
1. Remember me posting something about the University of Illinois Library who created a Facebook application for searching the library catalog? Apparently, Facebook has decided that these are not worthy [...]
I couldn’t believe it when I saw it, but a library in Arizona is getting rid of the traditional classification system (Dewey Decimal Classification - DDC) in favor of a bookstore type atmosphere where books are arranged by subject. While that may not be a big deal to many of you, it is. It is [...]
