Dewey isn’t even used by all libraries, but library use/accessibility never was very good in the states anyway. Kind of pointless to learn the sorting method in your secondary school library that has nothing useful in it
All I remember about the Dewey decimal system is that I had to walk across the building and onto another floor if I was looking for a book about a Black American (300s, social sciences) or White American (900s, history)
Edit - I just looked up 335 - Socialism and Related Systems:
335 - Socialism and Related Systems
335.6 - Fascism
I mean that one like all pre-computer-library systems is just honestly fairly obsolete. Half of it’s job was that you’d have a starting point to skip over a few thousand reference cards to get where you wanted, which is hilariously easier to do on a computer without even getting all that fancy with it.
Kids don’t know the Dewey decimal system? What?
Dewey isn’t even used by all libraries, but library use/accessibility never was very good in the states anyway. Kind of pointless to learn the sorting method in your secondary school library that has nothing useful in it
What does it even mean to know an indexing system?
An index is useful because I don’t need to remember that 802.11 or whatever is biographies of anarchists, I can just go look it up
IEEE 802.11 is the standard for WiFi, guess that’s your daily Wrong on the internet post? But check this out:
3xx - Social Sciences
33x - Economics
335 - Socialism and Related Systems
335.83 - Anarchism
At the very least, everyone should learn the first digit groups in school:
omg you absolutely deweyed on that user
All I remember about the Dewey decimal system is that I had to walk across the building and onto another floor if I was looking for a book about a Black American (300s, social sciences) or White American (900s, history)
Edit - I just looked up 335 - Socialism and Related Systems:
335 - Socialism and Related Systems
335.6 - Fascism
Yikes
I mean that one like all pre-computer-library systems is just honestly fairly obsolete. Half of it’s job was that you’d have a starting point to skip over a few thousand reference cards to get where you wanted, which is hilariously easier to do on a computer without even getting all that fancy with it.
Holy fucking shit I didn’t. Now I do! Cool stuff.
Yes because it sucks