More miscellany
I'm on a roll today.
I was putting a reference book away the other day at work when I noticed that in the Library of Congress classification system, the call number of the Bible (at least the version we have) begins with BS. Coincidence, or wacky atheist librarian humor?
I was putting a reference book away the other day at work when I noticed that in the Library of Congress classification system, the call number of the Bible (at least the version we have) begins with BS. Coincidence, or wacky atheist librarian humor?
posted by Madame Defarge at 4:51 PM
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Ok, what is up with the library of congress system? Dewey decimal I kind of got, but what is the logic behind the former? I went to try to find a play in the college libary, only to discover that there was no fiction section. I was given a call number with both letters and numbers that I couldn't make rhyme or reason of. There were numbers that had both 3 and 4 digits before the decimal place. Crazy.
Isn't it awful? My library uses it, and it's completely lost on the students. Frankly, it's completely lost on me. To give you more information than you probably want to know, the letters represent "fields of knowledge." So the majority of the books in my library are N (for art). Yours was probably in P (for language and literature). And no, the letters don't stand for the subjects, which would sort of make sense.
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