[Sigia-l] Pre-Faceted Classification

[Listera]

"Andrew McNaughton" wrote:

> Above each of the cases of antique books was a painted portrait of a
> classical greek philosopher.  On the spine of each book was the name of
> the philosopher, followed by numbers for the number of shelves down from
> the top, and the number of books from the left of the bookcase.

This reminds me of a time when I was traveling in a developing country (that
shall remain nameless) and visited a tiny library on a mountainside, with
maybe 200 books. I looked around and felt that something was amiss. Then it
hit me: books were categorized on the shelves according to their height.

Best,

Ziya