#dewey decimal system

[thatsbelievable]

[does-this-look-inanimate-to-you]

fuck the dewey decimal system all my homies hate the dewey decimal system

[atlinmerrick]

A library I recently visited had this at the end of the stacks and I will love them forever for it. It's a sheet of paper giving you the Dewey Decimal numbers for topics such as abortion, abuse, suicide, and more so that you don't have to go talk to a librarian and in case you don't know how to use the computers.

IMAGE ID: A laminated sheet of paper that says:

Sensitive Subjects We are here to help, so feel free to ask us for any type of materials, but we understand if you are hesitant to ask.

Abortion: 179.76 or 362.19888 Abuse: 362.76 Abusive Relationships: 362.8292 Birth control: 363.96 or 613.9434 Body Image: 306.4613 or 616.852 Cancer: 616.99 Child Abuse: 362.76 or 616.85822 Depression: 616.8527 Divorce: 306.89 or 346.790166 Domestic Violence: 362.76 or 362.82 Drug Addiction: 362.29 or 616.86 Eating Disorders: 616.8526 Grieving: 155.937 Gun Violence: 363.33 Homelessness: 362.5 or 305.568 Immigration: 304.73 or 325.72 LGBTOIA+: 306.76 Mental Illness: 616.89 Personal Health: 613 Pregnancy: 618.2 Race Issues: 305.8 Rape & Sexual Assault: 362.88 or 364.1532 Sex: 612.6 or 613.9 Sexually Transmitted Diseases: 616.951 Suicide: 362.28 or 155.937 Trauma & Recovery: 616.8521

END ID

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

For those of you who are interested in becoming horror movie protagonists, your local library's parapsychology/occultism section can be found under Dewey Decimal classification 130.0 - 130.9

If you're looking for folklore, that would be in the early 398s (if you hit "jokes and jests," 398.7, you've gone too far)

[moonshinemagpie]

btw, if you ever wanted a really quick glimpse of how the Dewey Decimal System is biased in favor of white Christian Europeans, just check out the 200s section:

200 Religion 201 Philosophy of Christianity 202 Miscellany of Christianity 203 Dictionaries of Christianity 204 Special topics 205 Serial publications of Christianity 206 Organizations of Christianity 207 Education, research in Christianity 208 Kinds of persons in Christianity 209 History & geography of Christianity 210 Natural theology 211 Concepts of God 212 Existence, attributes of God 213 Creation 214 Theodicy 215 Science & religion 216 Good & evil 217 Not assigned or no longer used 218 Humankind 219 Not assigned or no longer used 220 Bible 221 Old Testament 222 Historical books of Old Testament 223 Poetic books of Old Testament 224 Prophetic books of Old Testament 225 New Testament 226 Gospels & Acts 227 Epistles 228 Revelation (Apocalypse) 229 Apocrypha & pseudepigrapha 230 Christian theology 231 God 232 Jesus Christ & his family 233 Humankind 234 Salvation (Soteriology) & grace 235 Spiritual beings 236 Eschatology 237 Not assigned or no longer used 238 Creeds & catechisms 239 Apologetics & polemics 240 Christian moral & devotional theology 241 Moral theology 242 Devotional literature 243 Evangelistic writings for individuals 244 Not assigned or no longer used 245 Texts of hymns 246 Use of art in Christianity 247 Church furnishings & articles 248 Christian experience, practice, life 249 Christian observances in family life 250 Christian orders & local church 251 Preaching (Homiletics) 252 Texts of sermons 253 Pastoral office (Pastoral theology) 254 Parish government & administration 255 Religious congregations & orders 256 Not assigned or no longer used 257 Not assigned or no longer used 258 Not assigned or no longer used 259 Activities of the local church 260 Christian social theology 261 Social theology 262 Ecclesiology 263 Times, places of religious observance 264 Public worship 265 Sacraments, other rites & acts 266 Missions 267 Associations for religious work 268 Religious education 269 Spiritual renewal 270 Christian church history 271 Religious orders in church history 272 Persecutions in church history 273 Heresies in church history 274 Christian church in Europe 275 Christian church in Asia 276 Christian church in Africa 277 Christian church in North America 278 Christian church in South America 279 Christian church in other areas 280 Christian denominations & sects 281 Early church & Eastern churches 282 Roman Catholic Church 283 Anglican churches 284 Protestants of Continental origin 285 Presbyterian, Reformed, Congregational 286 Baptist, Disciples of Christ, Adventist 287 Methodist & related churches 288 Not assigned or no longer used 289 Other denominations & sects 290 Other & comparative religions 291 Comparative religion 292 Classical (Greek & Roman) religion 293 Germanic religion 294 Religions of Indic origin 295 Zoroastrianism (Mazdaism, Parseeism) 296 Judaism 297 Islam & religions originating in it 298 Not assigned or no longer used 299 Other religions

(found here)

"Christian/Christianity": 25—with many other words and phrases, like "Anglican churches," "Protestants," "Baptist," and "Old Testament," also indicating Christian topics

Judaism: 1

Islam: 1

Most other world religions, clumped together: 1

[readerupdated]

I’m sure you know these vintage library charts already. Take a look, again. Artificial intelligence should be trained on them. The charts developed in the 1930s, and used to train librarians and teachers, explain how to process information and come up with relevant answers.

(via Vintage library charts the AI should be trained on)

[marlinspirkhall]

In the UK, instead of the Dewey decimal system, we have:

[toastedwrittenthoughts]

Lets. Talk. Boys.

So, here's the thing... by this time, the T-Birds have left.. Or are in the final process of leaving, since Cynthia states she doesn't wanna see Gil's face. And the only people who are still around, are the Soc's.

Right?

Nancy has kissed everyone. Even B- Buddy. But she hasn't said anything about the T-Birds.. Then again, it's not like anyone asked. Besides, I don't think she can. After all, different circles and all that.

And technically they aren't Pink Ladies- YET! But for the sake of my rant, it would go AGAINST THEIR FUTURE CODE!

Im getting a rant ready about the 'RULES/CODE' of being a Pink Lady, so I will spare you all the most of it here. But three of which need to be said.

Again, not the pledge, the RULES! You can even google them! Weirdly enough, only the ladies have Rules, whereas the T-Birds don't... W.T.F?

Rule 2: At no time is a Pink Lady to become romantically involved with a non-T-Bird member. Restriction is rescinded only after graduation from school or expulsion. A Pink Lady will not date a: Jock, nerd, Preppie, anybody non-cool, or member of a rival school or gang. T-Birds, not Nerds!

Rule 3: The Pink Lady jacket symbolizes that the wearer is the girlfriend / consort of a T-Bird member.

Rule 6: No Pink Lady is allowed to interfere with other Pink Lady to T-Bird relationships. If the leader of the T-Birds is spoken for, unattached Pink Lady is not permitted to trespass on fellow Pink Lady relationship. If the leader of the T-Birds is available (Pink Lady girlfriend leaves - see rule #3), unattached Pink Lady may make advances on unclaimed T-Bird leader.

So.... Nancy hasnt/cant have kissed Richie, Gil, Shy Guy or Potato.. That opens up the making of the rules of such. AND I want them to do it! I need to know how their 'code' comes about! Its briefly spoken in both movies, but never fleshed out much.

And I like to think that Nancy will kiss Potato here..

And either need a Dewey Decimal System or will help create the rules themselves to make things simple so as to not over complicate things in the ranks so to speak.

From what I know, each Lady has a Bird.

Jane and Richie. Gil and Olivia. Nancy and Potato... Cynthia.... Hmm..

I've got a thought about this.

In recent events, we see Cynthia in a leather jacket. That means, she 'leaves' the Ladies. Then again, I would still want it to say Pink Ladies on the back, but in T-Bird font, if that makes any sense. And if she leaves, who then takes her place?

My unpopular opinion is on Susan, believe it or not. And if that works out, Hazel would take Susan's place among the Soc's whether she takes up with Buddy or Wally- doesn't matter to me.

Susan wants to be loud. Be bold. Not do the things she's told. And if she is acting out and rebelling while eating burgers, she could potentially be a Pink Lady. And my pairing for her? Shy Guy. And I know he kinda has a thing for Cynthia but.. Think about it..

A bad boy/giant teddy bear who rides a motorcycle and is part of a gang (who is loyal to their girls). CLASSIC. REBELOUS. Good Girl ACT. But..

HE'S A GOOD. GUY! And I believe she deserves that.. (Don't remind me of her going after Richie to make Buddy jealous. )

In conclusion, Cynthia would be able to walk between both worlds, as it were and could even be with Lydia if that's the road she+ the writers decides to take.

I'm super tired and don't know if my rant made any sense, let me know what you think. I love discussing this show!

[openstorygames]

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[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned that the library career of the creator of the Dewey Decimal system, Melvil Dewey ended in disgrace, because of his groping of female librarians. Dewey also insisted on seeing photographs of the women before he would hire them, to determine if they were attractive or not (x)

[moonlightmirrorball]

I Dewey on her decimal until she system

[nitewrighter]

Me: Like, I know a lot of librarians hate the Dewey Decimal system, but at the library I work at I feel it’s actually fairly intuitive. It’s kind of like Fahrenheit--like sure it’s not really accurate, but as far as usage by people goes, it makes sense for the most part.

Me: *sees the way the Religion [DDC 200] is divided*

Me: *sees the way Language dictionaries are divided*

Me: *sees Phrenology of all fucking things is its own fucking section*

Me: *remembers the horror of all of the computer programming books crammed together at the very front of my library’s nonfiction section*

Me: ...okay yeah never mind I need to dig up Dewey and kill him again.

[mexicanistnet]

Medieval life was a mosh pit of famines, plagues, and dragons. To survive, you joined the human centipede: guilds, families, anything but the dreaded “wanderer.” Women? They were wives, mothers, daughters — neatly filed in the Dewey Decimal System of societal roles.

[thekittyburger]

I already loved the Dewey decimal system but… this is what sold it to me 🥵 (kind of exposing myself as an AmySantiago breed of weirdo but eh)

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Click here to generate a random number between 0 and 999.

That's your Dewey Decimal Classification

I got 358

Public administration and military science

Air and other specialized forces and warfare; engineering and related services

[birchshutter]

Envoi

A beautiful envoi from Sorting things out: Classification and Its Consequences by Geoffrey C. Bowker & Susan Leigh Star