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Dewey numbers for LGBTI topics have been and at times continue to be homophobic, reflecting the society and times in which the numbers are developed, from the nineteenth century to present. Melvil Dewey, a man so obsessed with efficiency he shortened...

The days of going to a library or archive and browsing for records has long past; if it ever existed at all. Most genealogically significant collections involves a fairly high degree of preparation and an additional amount of astute strategy to maximize...

Introduction Since entering the library world, I’ve been fascinated by the substream of uber-geeks which are the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) nerds. It was the enthusiastic and technical-leaning banter of Editor-in-Chief Michael Panzer,...

CIC Center for Library Initiatives Director Mark Sandler to Retire InfoDOCKET reports that “Mark Sandler, Director of the CIC Center for Library Initiatives, has announced his retirement, effective February 29, 2016. Now entering his tenth year of service...

People just keep creating stuff -- books, movies, music, you name it... so it's (more than) a full-time job to keep up with all the cool new stuff. How do we classify music into hip-hop, heavy metal or Krautrock? What can we learn from mapping all these...