Re: [TML] Question for the audience Charles McKnight 08 Nov 2021 00:01 UTC

At the library where I was bringing automation, we had to accommodate both because the library in question was in the process of migrating from the Dewey Decimal System to the Library of Congress system.

ObTrav: Issues that can arise documentation is classified by one culture’s system.

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> On Sun, 7 Nov 2021 21:57:06 +0000, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at
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>> Imagine the Dewey Decimal System with only the 100s level categories.
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> Just a random side comment - and this is NOT my American parochialism
> coming out - but the Dewey system quite frankly stinks (I wanted to use a
> stronger word); the Library of Congress system makes far more sense.
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