[Sigia-l] Pre-Faceted Classification

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"John Fullerton" wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> P. D. James, in her most recent novel, referred to admiring the
> ordering of books by size for the best use of book shelf space.

I should perhaps have emphasized the word 'categorized' in my story, for the
man who seemed to be in charge there actually could find an arbitrary
selection automagically. So for him the size faceting worked, I guess :-)

Best,

Ziya