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Dewey Decimal System Day 2025
You can file this Hump 🐫 Day under 025.431 K66 since today is Dewey Decimal System Day. Let’s browse the shelves, safe in the knowledge that you’re in the right aisle. 📚
Every Library
I want a system that will fit every library, large or small, present or future. ~Melvil Dewey
Whether it was High Victorian zeal or a productive use of OCD, but Mr. Dewey came up with a classification system that will indeed fit every library, large or small, present or future.
It helps to be organized if you ever want to find your stuff again. {😒 squints at Kelly}
I shudder to think of a library before Dewey.
I imagine they’d still have bunched stuff by categories, but they might have prioritized alphabetically or bunched by topic.
Actually, my own personal library is non-Dewey madness.
There are like items on some shelves, but it’s not a guarantee.
That being said, it’s fine because you can see my library on a small collection of shelves rather than an entire library.
It would be kind of irritating to try to Dewey-ize my own library unless I had one of those super-cool home libraries with a ladder that rolls around on a rail.
My dream home library 📚 #library #books
Ahh… #LifeGoals
System
How to Understand the Dewey Decimal System
Fortunately, most libraries feature a placard at the end of the aisles indicating which section of the Dewey system you happen to be looking at.
If you know you’re in the 570’s (Biology) and you want to be in Philosophy (100’s), it’s a time-saver to know you need to move down a couple rows.
Not a huge deal when you’re in a library the size of a large room, but still helpful.
On the other hand, if you’re at multi-story university library it’s really helpful to know which floor to go to.
So, hats off to meticulous Victorian library scientists for making knowledge categorizable.
The Dewey Decimal System Song
Easy To Find
We must treat classification as a means, never an end; a way to make books easy to find and easy to return. ~Melvil Dewey
It’s easy to get caught up in your work.
It’s a big hangup for IT guys and programmers in particular.
Computer nerds like to program for programming’s sake and because they like to geek out.
So, it’s good to see that Mr. Dewey held that the classification system was a means to an end rather than an end in itself.
813.6 K66 Holiday Season Serial Romances
💡🎄🌟 Goodness & Lights 🌟🎄💡 is rolling right along.
I’ve got about a dozen more episodes to write to finish up the story.
I needed to veg out on Monday to recover from a LOT of formatting.
There were a bunch of episodes that I’d written in need of editing, formatting and generating a post header image.
That last part was the hardest.
Oh my word! Can you imagine how a simple scene can take HOURS to get right. Utter madness.
Even so, I got through the whole stack and have a mere dozen or so episodes to finish up.
I also have to cover and format the book from last year’s The Lights of Pine Hollow.
Be that as it may, I’m still a lot more relaxed and much less rushed than last year’s 🎄 holiday season 🎅🏻.
That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for some tasty ☕🍫 cocoa…