[Publib] Good-bye Dewey

[wildflowerlibrarian at comcast.net]

I like that! and really that's the key for any profession - to get out of your own jargon and make it understandable to a layperson

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From: "Iris Jones" <ijones at sekls.org> 

> 
> On a tangent to this, when I was a cataloger, I never tried to explain Dewey as 
> a classification scheme. 
> 
> I told people that it was an address. The top number is the block and the word 
> (or letter code) underneath is the house number. That made sense to them. If we 
> went further, I could tell them all the dog books lived on the same block 
> (636.7) and had different house numbers. (various authors). 
> 
> Iris I. Jones 
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