A Teach Me How To Dewey production

The Rundown:

• 020 Library & information sciences
• 021 Library relationships
• 022 Administration of physical plant
• 023 Personnel management
• 024 No longer used—formerly Regulations for readers
• 025 Library operations
• 026 Libraries for specific subjects
• 027 General libraries
• 028 Reading & use of other information media
• 029 No longer used—formerly Literary methods

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 catalogs. It’s something we modern users take for granted. I’m old enough to remember using card catalogs, but kids these days (*shakes fist at sky*) don’t have a clue. Whether that’s good or not is debatable, I suppose, but so long as they’re using the library I’d call that a victory.

Speaking of victory, this section is the first thus far that has books I’ve already read, two of which are below. Yeah reading!

The Dew3:

Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
by Avi Steinberg
Dewey: 027.665 STE
Random Sentence: “For these reasons, the library has always been run by a strongman.”

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
by Alan Jacobs
Dewey: 028.8 JAC
Random Sentence: “Fortuity happens, but serendipity can be cultivated.”

My Ideal Bookshelf
edited by Thessaly La Force
Dewey: 028.9 MY
Random Sentence: “I picked all of these books because I think you should always judge a book by its cover–or its spine, in this case.” -Oliver Jeffers