Tag: libraries
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DDC 440-449: Foux Du Fa French
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: 440 Romance languages; French 441 French writing system & phonology 442 French etymology 443 French dictionaries 444 Not assigned or no longer used 445 French grammar 446 Not assigned or no longer used 447 French language variations 448 Standard French usage 449 Provençal & Catalan…
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The Simba Life, Thrice
The third issue of my culture magazine The Simba Life is now live. Check out the full PDF, or peruse individual articles. There’s a listacular retrospective, an artistic rediscovery, a debate over which Relient K album is best, a coming-out story you probably have never heard before, and more. Below is the briefing I wrote to…
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The Glass Cage
To never confront the possibility of getting lost is to live in a state of perpetual dislocation. If you never have to worry about not knowing where you are, then you never have to know where you are. —Nicholas Carr, The Glass Cage One time the internet went down at the library and it was like the Apocalypse.…
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The Holy Sanctuary of Public Libraries
As a reference librarian at a suburban public library, I sit at the information desk, waiting to answer patrons’ many different questions. On Friday evenings, the foot traffic slows and a soothing silence descends on my area. Save the soft clattering of the keyboards in the computer lab, it is mercifully quiet. It’s in these…
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DDC 430-439: Polyglöts Ünite
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: 430 Germanic languages; German 431 German writing system & phonology 432 German etymology 433 German dictionaries 434 Not assigned or no longer used 435 German grammar 436 Not assigned or no longer used 437 German language variations 438 Standard German usage 439 Other…
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DDC 420-429: Nouns and Pronounce
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: While I know a little Spanish, English is (obvs) my primary language. And what a weird language it is. I’m so glad I didn’t have to learn it later in life, because in some ways it makes no sense. Especially pronunciation: this well-known…
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DDC 410-419: Linguistics alfredo
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: 410 Linguistics 411 Writing systems 412 Etymology 413 Dictionaries 414 Phonology 415 Structural systems (Grammar) 416 No longer used—formerly Prosody (linguistics) 417 Dialectology & historical linguistics 418 Standard usage; Applied linguistics 419 Verbal language not spoken or written Regarding the post title: what…
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DDC 400-409: Learn ALL THE WORDS
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: Gotta admit this up front: I friggin’ love words. As an English major, a writer, a reader—pick the reason. I love them so much that I keep a list of cool words I’ve encountered that I want to remember. (*pushes up glasses*) So…
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DDC 390-399: Emily Post-Its
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: This section is a bit of a grab-bag. I suppose customs, etiquette, and folklore fit together under the broad category of culture, but on the shelves this looks like that one drawer in the kitchen where you throw all that miscellaneous crap that…
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DDC 380-389: We built this city on rock and roads
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: 380 Commerce, communications, transport 381 Internal commerce (Domestic trade) 382 International commerce (Foreign trade) 383 Postal communication 384 Communications; Telecommunication 385 Railroad transportation 386 Inland waterway & ferry transportation 387 Water, air, space transportation 388 Transportation; Ground transportation 389 Metrology & standardization Honestly,…
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DDC 370-379: Trigger warning – School
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: A fitting section to happen upon as we approach back-to-school season. It’s a time of year that is bittersweet for me: while I do miss the camaraderie and intellectual rigor of being in school, I don’t miss BSing papers, having to take math,…
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DDC 360-369: A curious case of massive understatement
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: 360 Social services; association 361 General social problems 362 Social welfare problems & services 363 Other social problems & services 364 Criminology 365 Penal & related institutions 366 Association 367 General clubs 368 Insurance 369 Miscellaneous kinds of associations 361 “General social problems”?…
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DDC 350-359: Battle Cry of Deweydom
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: 350 Public administration 351 Of central governments 352 Of local governments 353 Of U.S. federal & state governments 354 Of specific central governments 355 Military science 356 Foot forces & warfare 357 Mounted forces & warfare 358 Other specialized forces & services 359…
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This Is Martin Bonner
I’ve seen a face I won’t soon forget. It’s the face of an unsure redemption, of grace on the upswing. Of counting tenuous steps as tiny miracles. This face is a freshly washed used car whose surface is clean again, but whose frame within still carries the weather and rust. It’s a face leading a…
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DDC 340-349: Law and Boredom
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: 340 Law 341 International law 342 Constitutional & administrative law 343 Military, tax, trade, industrial law 344 Social, labor, welfare, & related law 345 Criminal law 346 Private law 347 Civil procedure & courts 348 Law (Statutes), regulations, cases 349 Law of specific…
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DDC 330-339: Economics? Interesting? WTF
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: 330 Economics 331 Labor economics 332 Financial economics 333 Land economics 334 Cooperatives 335 Socialism & related systems 336 Public finance 337 International economics 338 Production 339 Macroeconomics & related topics Gotta be honest: I was not expecting to find as many interesting…
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DDC 320-329: Beware the festering swamp
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: 320 Political science 321 Systems of governments & states 322 Relation of state to organized groups 323 Civil & political rights 324 The political process 325 International migration & colonization 326 Slavery & emancipation 327 International relations 328 The legislative process 329 Not…
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DDC 310-319: “Sports statistics… interesting subject. Homework, Tannen?”
A Teach Me How To Dewey production This Is How We Dewey: Man… some slim pickin’s here. Besides the series of World Almanacs that go a few years back, literally the only other books my library has are the two other ones featured below. (Not even the Grays Sports Almanac? C’mon library!) On the one…