Dana Jones brought up an interesting piece of library news tonight on our Hot Topics discussion board - 'Arizona Library Shuns Dewey Decimal System.' Apparently, this public library has decided to shush forever the organization method that 95% of public libraries presently use to catalog and store materials - the Dewey Decimal System.
According to the NPR report today, they will be setting the library up like a Barnes and Noble or Borders - organized by interest like "Gardening" or "Gaming" or "Lame" or things like that. Don't get me wrong, I think libraries need to be aware of what's going on in the corporate world. It just doesn't mean that they need to follow obediently, tail between legs, every trend that hits the market. So while college bound teenagers will be able to easily find information about top schools and how to write decent essays, they won't be ready for the shock that sets in when they set foot into their very own University library - Library of Congress style. I wonder if they'll outlaw letters now that numbers have been deemed too difficult to decipher. We shall see.
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