[Sigia-l] Pre-Faceted Classification

[karl fast]

> 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.

Large repository libraries often use this trick to save space.

For example, most academic libraries don't keep all their holding on
the stacks. They put older books in a special repository library
where they're available upon request.

These repositories are closed stacks (ie: people don't have physical
access so they can't browse them). This means you don't need to
worry about physical colocation (putting like things beside each
other).

In this scenario it's more efficient to organize based on physical
size. But you better file things properly!


--karl