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>What do you mean by the Library of Congress system not influencing
>successive generations of scholars? The university and local
>community college libraries I'm familiar with use the Library of
>Congress system, where local public libraries use the Dewey Decimal
>system.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I meant to say that the Library of Congress
*would* influence the way people made connections.
>Scholars at the academic (university and community college)
>libraries would be subjected to (influenced by?) the LoC system.
>
>Book categorizing doesn't seem to fall into a natural system of
>categories like one sees in phylogeny of organisms. I'm not a book
>categorizer, so I'm just babbling.
That's why I think that categorizing books is a reflection of our own
internal processes rather than reflecting any natural structure of
knowledge.
And to take this even further, look at things you *won't* find in
libraries, like pornography, religious and hate tracts etc. These
are all very real fields of human endeavor, but they are shuffled off
into obscurity. Censorship and memetics.
frankie
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