Daily Archives Saturday, July 2008

A New Dewey? LibraryThing Proposes The Open Shelves Classification System

An open source, collaborative Dewey replacement?  That sounds pretty cool…The Dewey Decimal System® was great for its time, but it's outlived that. Libraries today should not be constrained by the mental models of the 1870s, doomed to tinker with an increasingly irrelevant system. Nor should they be forced into a proprietary system—copyrighted, trademarked and licensed […]

Friday Fun Link – 15 Unfortunate Ad Placements (July 11, 2008)

Some humour for a rainy Friday…