Tag Archives: Dewey Decimal Classification

The Importance of Taking Breaks

Posted on 27 April 2010 by Rick Mason

Most people are viewing this with an eye towards the Dewey Decimal System, but what I see is the importance of taking regular breaks: found on The Cataloguing Librarian

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A Little Star Wars Political Library Geekery

Posted on 9 December 2009 by Rick Mason

The part of me that is somewhat of a Star Wars geek really finds it fascinating that, according to one of the catalogers at my place of work,  Barack Obama’s Dewey Decimal Cutter Number is… Ob1

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Classify

Posted on 9 July 2008 by Rick Mason

Classify is a new service from OCLC which returns class numbers (Dewey, LC, and National Library of Medicine) assigned to books in WorldCat. This could be a good way to use the “wisdom of the crowd” when you are not … Continue reading →

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Open Shelves Classification

Posted on 8 July 2008 by Rick Mason

Tim Spalding of LibraryThing has started a new ambitious project: develop a new shelf classification system that would eliminate the baggage of the 100+ year-old systems many libraries have in place, as well as create a system free from the … Continue reading →

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Open Data

Posted on 10 April 2007 by Rick Mason

Open Data : What Would Kilgour Think? is a post by Jay Datema about the recent settlement between the New York Public Library and iBiblio regarding the latter’s harvesting of records from the NYPL catalog. I am increasingly uncomfortable with … Continue reading →

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Weed of the Month club

Posted on 25 January 2007 by Rick Mason

Weed of the Month doesn’t have anything to do with gardening (although that topic is covered) but with weeding library materials.  Organized by Dewey Decimal Classification, it is an excellent overview of de-selection issues by topic area. from Catalogablog

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