[Sigia-l] About bloody time?

[James Aylett]

Webb, KerryA wrote:

>> but... the Library 2.0 mantra goes something like this:
>> Any single categorisation system is doomed to failure. DDC was one
>> way, it should never have been the only way,
> 
> It wasn't.

The impression I've got from my librarian friends is that DDC has been considered outdated for more than a decade.

And as to making it easy to find stuff (Andrew Boyd)... you're kidding, right? I can rarely find anything *subtle* using either Amazon or Google, and that's when I turn to librarians and specialist researchers.

James

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