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Big, big news from the library world!

The 22nd edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification has finally been published. If it opens, shuts, talks, walks, gestates, masturbates, moos, glues, cognates, burns, floats, occured, is/was controversial, or just plain needed to be classified it's all there in 4 volumes!

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It probably conjugates in public, as well, without the least regard for the delicate sensibilities of our children . . . another disgusting example of the assault of secular humanists on our cherished values . . . Oooops ! ! ! this ain't the politcal forum, is it . . . sorry . . .

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I hope you have noted the 'flashy' new green cover. This is bound to split the library world with this 'new, improved' look. What are those wild people at OCLC thinking of?

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The slaughter is likely to be horrible, it is too much to contemplate . . . ah, tragedy, thy name is innovation . . .

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The rot started when we abandoned the time-honoured tradition of parchment and quill pen for the white-hot allure of the printing press.

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Nah - 'twas the end of hieroglyphs and cuneiform that started the rot.

It has all been downhill since then....

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Hieroglyphs? Cuneiform? Knots in goat-hair strings were always good enough for good ol' Dad... after all, if you can keep track of the flocks and the sons, what else do you really need???

And who is this Classification guy, anyhow? Anybody whose first name is Dewey has to be a sissy.

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I'm an analogue kinda guy meself.

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Wy wrote:

Anybody whose first name is Dewey has to be a sissy.

Wy - you mock the Library Gods at the risk of your soul eternally bored in Hell's Reading Room. Only Judith Kranz, Danielle Steele and thrillers with the last chapters torn out will be your literary fare for all eternity!

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LoL....I'd be in hell if I didn't have the ending to any of them trashy Jackie Collins books.....haha.

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Pondy has book of changed!!!!!

I can't laugh at him - though he is still wet.....

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He was just iching for something new . . .

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Let us, then, find him a flea...

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Where did Mr. Dewey stand in the matter of his desktop.

Organized?

Cluttered?

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I bet our old mate, Melville Dewey has a remarkably organised desktop!

The inventor of the DDC undoubtedly has a sick mind, and has been roundly cursed by librarians ever since Dewey 1.

Of course the best classification system is size and colour. Big books, then little books. Then, within category, though the colours of the rainbow.

Well- that's what I did when I was a librarian - but the boss was a tad tetchy! I'm no longer a librarian - is that why?

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Very possibly, Margo, very possibly....

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Size and color, absolutely!! Of course it is nice if art books are separated from construction associated ephemera, from literature, but not entirely. I have been known to stick the odd relevant text from another realm in with non-mates.

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The new system masturbates? Wow. Gotta be pretty hard if you're a classification system. Of course, this finally proves my theory that the DDS is actually a malignant entity that's propagating itself through book and hapless librarians, absorbing info until it finally has enough to take over the world and MAKE SLAVES OF US ALL!!!!

Librarians, principles, most teachers and bosses have already succumbed!!! STAY AWAY from Margo - he is a vector!!!!

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Twisted_Ferret wrote:

Librarians, principles, most teachers and bosses have already succumbed!!! STAY AWAY from Margo - he is a vector!!!!

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