{"id":70,"date":"2012-06-02T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-06-02T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T04:02:00","slug":"2-blogjune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/2-blogjune\/","title":{"rendered":"2 #blogjune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Two&#8221; brought to mind the Dewey vs Library of Congress call number systems.  I don&#8217;t know why; I know there are other systems.  In fact on my campus alone, although we use LC primarily, we also use Dewey (for a lot of the education materials), Moys (for law), first-three-letters-of-author (for special fiction collections), super-local accession numbers (for a lot of AV material though I think these at least are to be reclassified at some point) and so on and so forth (standards; product catalogues; archives).  And I&#8217;ve never understood the &#8220;ringed&#8221; classifications at all.  All of which is surely enough to make anyone emit a hearty existentially anguished &#8220;<em>Why?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s the LC vs Dewey that I mostly have to explain to new students familiar with school and public libraries.  And it&#8217;s not that I think that one or the other or both should change, because I understand their respective niches.  But those poor students.  Really it&#8217;s no wonder they ask for books by bib number, or ISBN, or author, or colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Two&#8221; brought to mind the Dewey vs Library of Congress call number systems. I don&#8217;t know why; I know there are other systems. In fact on my campus alone, although we use LC primarily, we also use Dewey (for a lot of the education materials), Moys (for law), first-three-letters-of-author (for special fiction collections), super-local accession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[66,77,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}