AI6YR BenToo warm this week, so decided to go to the library late. Only problem is the number of teenagers running around in their cars looking at their phone, not the road! Also learned all the tailoring and mending books are not next to sewing books in Dewey Decimal. 🤔 #BikeTooter #libraries
Must actually be because the books I ran across earlier were "knitting and sewing" and filed with knitting around 746.432 and tailoring is at 646.2 -- why they are not next to each other, a mystery. #deweydecimal
Hmm, I should have looked at this book BEFORE sewing the purple jacket. Or maybe not, as I probably would have gotten bogged down in the "correct way to tailor a jacket" instead of just doing it. #sewing #tailoring
Holy crap, the guy who developed the Dewey Decimal system was known for sexual assault and being a white supremacist and anti-Semite. 😬 😱
"The Father of Modern Libraries Was a Serial Sexual Harasser
Melvil Dewey helped create a new profession for women—and harassed them at every step of the way."
https://www.history.com/articles/the-father-of-modern-libraries-was-a-serial-sexual-harasser
Jesse@ai6yr I made a joke to my grandmother (long retired school librarian) and she basically said "that's adorable that you know about the Dewey Decimal System, but he sucked and so did his system." which was fun, but a bit deflating in the moment.
Janice in GA
Pusher of Pixels@ai6yr man, I did not have "Trump expresses growing interest In Libraries" on my fascist bingo card
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Infrogmation@ai6yr another reason to use LOC classification
vicarvernon@Infrogmation @ai6yr now I know about Dewey, I wouldn't use DDC to order my books by, but considering I have about 800 books catalogued by it, I really don't fancy having to start again and re-catalogue everything, both on the shelves and in my listing of them.
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@ai6yr The guy who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for PCR insisted that AIDS wasn't caused by HIV, and thought astrology had been neglected as a field of scientific inquiry.
Cat West@Catawu @ai6yr According to his ghostwritten autobiography, he scribbled the predicted chemistry on the inside of a VW beetle while on a long drive with his girlfriend at the time. I think there's no mention of acid at that point, but while in grad school at Berkeley he took advantage of access to a mass spectrometer to formulate (and try out) compounds slightly different than (illegal) acid. Also, he once froze half his face with nitrous, oops.
@Catawu @ai6yr The autobio is here (I don't have a copy, that's just what I remember from reading it a decade and a half ago).
https://libgen.ad/s?q=dancing+naked+in+the+mind+field
https://libgen.ad/s?q=dancing+naked+in+the+mind+field
Anne Ominousif youre ever interested in taking a sewing class, this blogger-turned instructor seems pretty great.
i have not taken one of her classes myself but they get great reviews. i might do it one day even tho i know a lot already.
she'll be in the san diego area late this fall
blog: (not updated much anymore)
https://lladybird.com/
@ai6yr youre welcome!
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W6KME@ai6yr It's a topic for the sociologically minded reader I suppose...how have our perceptions of subject and topic changed in 150 years? What groupings in people's minds back then make no sense to us, and which of our ideas would be incredible to Victorians? Someone must have written about this...
@W6KME Hmm, I wonder what the Dewey Decimal area for that would be? 🤪
@ai6yr 😂
He was a visionary; it's the Dewey Decimal system, not the Dewey Duodecimal system in base 12. How modern! And no fractions either!
EDIT: that didn't really need saying, but I know the word "duodecimal" and if I don't use it periodically my head will explode. It's the cross that I bear.
ANOTHER EDIT: 300-307. I'm sorry.
j-r conlinYeah, Dewey, it turns out, was not a great guy, and had A LOT of opinions about how things should be cataloged. Really hope the new systems get wider adoption.
"....In 2019, the American Library Association (ALA) voted unanimously to strip Dewey’s name from its top honor, citing a history of racism, anti-Semitism, and sexual harassment. “Whereas Melvil Dewey did not permit Jewish people, African Americans, or other minorities admittance to the resort owned by Dewey and his wife,” reads the resolution approved by ALA...."
Emily Velasco@ai6yr this is like fabric dye at Walmart. It's stocked in there different locations in the stores for some reason. One set goes on one aisle in the fabric area. Another set goes on another aisle in the fabric area. A third set is over in the craft supplies.
@MLE_online @ai6yr Large retailers often have mindless product locations like this. It's a sign that a product's vendor is responsible for tracking inventory and reordering. Some vendors do, some don't, it's all part of the price negotiation. Shelf space is given over to that vendor.
I noticed in a local home center that Rigid hand tools were in the plumbing section, not the hand tool section; even standard pliers etc.
@W6KME @ai6yr That makes sense in the case of Ridgid tools, which seem to get their own dedicated Ridgid bay that's displayed the way they want it, but is Rit really sending a representative to walmart to maintain a the 7-9 bottles of dye they have sitting on the bottom shelf in the notions section, the 4-7 bottles they have in the fabric aisle, and the 3-15 boxes of powdered dye that's over by the other brand of dye?
@MLE_online @ai6yr RIT is owned by Nakoma Products, which also owns several other niche-y products. They may even have a distribution arrangement with another wholesaler to handle all of those brands; I was in hardware and paint, not housewares. So yes, I bet RIT really is vendor-stocked. Walmart probably won't say.
We used to have formulas to decide whether to stock products ourselves, based on pricing, inventory turns, etc. Low-volume stuff you don't want to handle yourself if possible.
@ai6yr i blame Gender
@ai6yr I suspect the reason is that sewing was traditionally done by women, but tailoring was done by men. Our man Melvil was likely building in the prejudices of his era.
@W6KME It actually looks to me like clothing is scattered completely around the Dewey decimal system in a bunch of places. Very confusing and not so useful, at least to someone who is trying to browse the shelves.
Peter@ai6yr
At least as a start - whenever looking for where something may be located in the MDS, I use this browser
https://www.librarything.com/mds/
Definitely worth a skim for the next time you're looking something up.
@phpete Thanks!