[Sigia-l] About bloody time?

[Adrian Howard]

On 17 Jul 2007, at 06:00, Andrew Boyd wrote:

> On 7/17/07, Ziya Oz <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> But the new library in this growing Phoenix suburb has gone a step  
>> further.
>> It is one of the first in the nation to have abandoned the Dewey  
>> Decimal
>> System of classifying books, in favor of an approach similar to  
>> that at
>> Barnes & Noble, say, where books are shelved in ³neighborhoods²  
>> based on
>> subject matter.
>>
>> Does he think his approach could signal the death of Dewey in  
>> libraries
>> across the nation?
>>
>> ³I think it could be,² Mr. Courtright said. ³And it probably  
>> should be.²
>>
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/14/us/14dewey.html>
>
> not to deliberately upset the LIS faction, but... the Library 2.0
> mantra goes something like this:

The idea that multiple categorisation systems are a good idea, or  
that Dewey/LOC/whatever have downsides, was a new to librarians  
produced guffaws of laughter from my librarian partner.

Are things really that different in the US?

Adrian