Post AY2ghlsdHHiPfhFfSy by FortyTwo@noagendasocial.com
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(DIR) Post #AY2XWn2phztmVhiCBs by FortyTwo@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T03:19:19Z
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Anybody remember this horseshit?Dewey decimal systemhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification
(DIR) Post #AY2XctpTOfPJI1NNU8 by CrimeaRiver@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T03:20:25Z
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@FortyTwo Thomas Dewey was a monster. The least of his creations is that system
(DIR) Post #AY2XwZILS7oJOZG9E8 by FortyTwo@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T03:23:59Z
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@CrimeaRiver Oh, yeah, for sureI was just reminiscing over how fucked up memorizing a series of numbers so you could narrow your search to a subtopic of books located in a warehouse full of shelves was back in the old days.
(DIR) Post #AY2YScbWgSnIvSW1UO by FortyTwo@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T03:29:46Z
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(DIR) Post #AY2Yc95jGbWOHzBTTk by AdamAtSea@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T03:31:29Z
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@FortyTwo @CrimeaRiver I remember when my school switched over from the card catalog to a computerized system. You can look up that book on the new shiny iMacs!
(DIR) Post #AY2ZtJ2DeOxg0NHyPQ by Bunnyslope@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T03:45:48Z
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@FortyTwo Because Alphabetical by author, last name, first name made no sense whatsoever…
(DIR) Post #AY2du8x11lqYpvVfF2 by FortyTwo@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T04:30:46Z
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@Bunnyslope oh, it's so precious...You see, books were alphabetized "in sections", and these sections were arbitrarily sorted by a numbering system. For example:500 Natural sciences and mathematics510 Mathematics516 Geometry516.3 Analytic geometries516.37 Metric differential geometries516.375 Finsler geometrySo, if you wanted to find a book on geometry, you wouldn't go to the "G" shelf, there was no "G" shelf. You'd go to the 516 shelves and then search the books alphabetically.
(DIR) Post #AY2e1MGztUQiBLIQwi by FortyTwo@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T04:32:04Z
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@Bunnyslope you probably knew this, but for the younger kids reading this thread, maybe it'll clarify it a bit for them.
(DIR) Post #AY2e5Vg2s8AeVRzZAW by FortyTwo@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T04:32:49Z
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@AdamAtSea @CrimeaRiver they were still rocking the card catalog when I was in college. I wonder what year they made the switch?
(DIR) Post #AY2eikbDKGx651RYvI by Jeff24@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T04:39:55Z
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@FortyTwo the three most recent libraries I’ve been to in Michigan, Florida, and California are still Dewey. What is replacing it? BISAC?
(DIR) Post #AY2ghlsdHHiPfhFfSy by FortyTwo@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T05:02:09Z
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@Jeff24 it's probably all still Dewey but it's kinda hidden now since most libraries have gotten rid of their card catalog for a computer search system.Sadly, I almost never go to a library anymore now. I got my kids library cards when they were old enough and, so far, they haven't had to go to the library to research like I did when I was in school.The internet has changed everything.
(DIR) Post #AY2h02dDjdb0pzkrFA by EarlThePearls@social.quodverum.com
2023-07-25T05:05:26Z
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@FortyTwo @Jeff24 You have to license the Dewey Decimal System nowNot free to use
(DIR) Post #AY2hLmusqOgOT8NzvM by FortyTwo@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T05:09:23Z
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@EarlThePearls @Jeff24 ROFL, you have to license the commie organizational system?Oh the irony...
(DIR) Post #AY2haWR2P5tLhFS4Ia by EarlThePearls@social.quodverum.com
2023-07-25T05:12:02Z
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@FortyTwo @Jeff24 Think this is themhttps://www.oclc.org/en/dewey.html
(DIR) Post #AY3vWZpvPO4pbV47KS by Bunnyslope@noagendasocial.com
2023-07-25T19:22:54Z
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@FortyTwo Yes. Yes I did.My favorite times with the old system were when I had to look something up in the “Card Catalog” and someone either took the card (because it was easier than writing it down) or some wiseass figured out how to pull the rod and then rearranged the whole drawer of cards!🤬🤬🤬