Year: 2014
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DDC 170-179: What are you reading under there?
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: 170 Ethics 171 Ethical systems 172 Political ethics 173 Ethics of family relationships 174 Occupational ethics 175 Ethics of recreation and leisure 176 Ethics of sex and reproduction 177 Ethics of social relations 178 Ethics of consumption 179 Other ethical norms Time to…
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DDC 160-169: Beam me up, Logic
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: You know what they say about logic… Though I am very much not a math or science person, I think Spock is onto something here regarding the stimulating nature of logic. Like a beautifully composed painting or cohesive album, as a simple composition…
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DDC 150-159: Paging Dr. Freud…
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: 150 Psychology 151 No longer used—formerly Intellect 152 Perception, movement, emotions, and drives 153 Mental processes and intelligence 154 Subconscious and altered states 155 Differential and developmental psychology 156 Comparative psychology 157 No longer used—formerly Emotions 158 Applied psychology 159 No longer used—formerly…
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DDC 140-149: The sexiest of all -isms
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: 140 Philosophical schools of thought 141 Idealism and related systems 142 Critical philosophy 143 Bergsonism and intuitionism 144 Humanism and related systems 145 Sensationalism 146 Naturalism and related systems 147 Pantheism and related systems 148 Liberalism, eclecticism, and traditionalism 149 Other philosophical systems…
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DDC 130-139: Calling Questlove
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: 130 Parapsychology and occultism 131 Parapsychological and occult methods 132 No longer used—formerly Mental derangements 133 Specific topics in parapsychology and occultism 134 No longer used—formerly Mesmerism and Clairvoyance 135 Dreams and mysteries 136 No longer used—formerly Mental characteristics 137 Divinatory graphology 138 Physiognomy 139 Phrenology…
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DDC 120-129: Deweyterminism
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: Can we discuss 125 for a second? “Formerly Infinity”? That 1) should be a high school garage band or Tumblr immediately, and 2) is, when you think about it for a second, an insane mind-melt. Something used to be infinite but now is not? I was…
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Girl Meets Rainbow
I was heartened by the exceedingly successful Kickstarter campaign to resurrect Reading Rainbow, which will help bring a new version of the early-literacy television program back to solvency and into classrooms to foster a love of reading in today’s children. But this article from Caitlin Dewey at the Washington Post gave me pause: “Crowdfunding is theoretically supposed to…
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DDC 100-109: Don’t know much philosophy
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: Ahhhhhh… Sam Cooke. Melodically justifying ignorance since 1960. But those of us who don’t know much about philosophy are in luck: Dewey’s got us covered. Having conquered the first 100 Dewey points, we now enter the mind-melting glass case of cognition dedicated to Philosophy and Psychology.…
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DDC 090-099: Kell yeah!
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: We made it to the end of our first 100 of Dewey! #WeDeweyedIt! And if it wasn’t totally evident by now that the Dewey Decimal Classification is about books, allow it to remind you one more time with this 10-spot dedicated to the things of books…
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DDC 080-089: Paging Carrot Top
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: In case you don’t remember (or have tried to forget) (a) payphones, (b) the “comedian” Carrot Top, or (3) the AT&T “Collect” commercials featuring Carrot Top and payphones, let me enlighten you. (Warning: this video might give you unwanted flashbacks to Carrot Top and the early…
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DDC 070-079: Carryin’ the banner
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: 070 Journalism, and newspapers 071 Newspapers in North America 072 Newspapers in British Isles; in England 073 Newspapers in central Europe; in Germany 074 Newspapers in France & Monaco 075 Newspapers in Italy & adjacent islands 076 Newspapers in Iberian Peninsula & adjacent islands 077 Newspapers…
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At the shore on a Monday
A poem At the shore on a Mondayseagulls with orange beaks,fighting against the wind,whip up and down the line,a boustrophedon parade—the waves shoving their way to shore.Jimmy Eat World’s “Futures” beckons themto me,scoring the ever-forward push of all creation. It is all connected.It is all connected now. Whatever reigns over this moment,I am a witness.…
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DDC 060-069: Museum’s Rules
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: 060 General organizations & museology 061 Organizations in North America 062 Organizations in British Isles; in England 063 Organizations in central Europe; in Germany 064 Organizations in France & Monaco 065 Organizations in Italy & adjacent islands 066 Organizations in Iberian Peninsula & adjacent islands 067…
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DDC 050-059: Killer serials
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: 050 General serials & their Indexes 051 Serials in American English 052 Serials in English 053 Serials in other Germanic languages 054 Serials in French, Occitan & Catalan 055 Serials in Italian, Romanian & related languages 056 Serials in Spanish & Portuguese 057 Serials in Slavic…
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DDC 040-049: The Abyss
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: Darkness. Emptiness. Eternally nothing. This is the first and only unassigned ten-spot in all of Dewey. It used to be the home of Biographies, but most libraries separate biographies into their own section, leaving this vacant lot to the weeds. Of course, on the shelves the…
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DDC 030-039: Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the 030s
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: 030 General encyclopedia works 031 Encyclopedias in American English 032 Encyclopedias in English 033 Encyclopedias in German 034 Encyclopedias in French, Occitan & Catalan 035 Encyclopedias in Italian, Romanian & related languages 036 Encyclopedias in Spanish & Portuguese 037 Encyclopedias in Slavic languages 038 Encyclopedias in…
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DDC 020-029: Meta-Dewey
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: We’re getting meta up in here. I suppose it’s fitting that the section on libraries should be towards the beginning. Imagine how much this section has changed from Melvil Dewey’s time until now. I wonder how blown his mind would be by the Internet and online…