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Nine Years Ago, I Speculated that Dewey’s Days Were Numbered. How Far Have We Come? | Opinion
SLJ(School Library Journal) ^ | 9/9/21 | Tali Babas

Posted on 09/28/2024 9:07:51 AM PDT by DallasBiff

I was vilified for criticizing the Dewey Decimal system. We librarians need to stop perpetuating its systemic racism in our libraries.

Almost a decade ago, my colleagues and I wrote an article for SLJ entitled “Are Dewey’s Days Numbered?” in which we made the argument that the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system had lost its relevance. We took a bold stance, and the backlash was swift. Fellow librarians would wait outside the rooms I was speaking in at conferences, backing me into corners to demand that I stop talking about alternative systems.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: ala; books; communistsedition; culturalterrorist; dewewdecimalsystem; deweydecimalsystem; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; libraries; library; nottalibabas; nutter; nutters; racism; talibabas; talibalas; waronliteracy; whackyleft
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To: DallasBiff

Because everything is racist and nothing is reverse racist because it’s the one-way street

Racism is caused by a genetic defect found only in Caucasians


41 posted on 09/28/2024 10:36:06 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (What does the Deep State have on Dims and RINOs? Demand release of all tax returns)
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To: DallasBiff

Basic intelligence these days is racist. The thought process that minorities can’t learn basic information is the real racism of lower expectations. I grow tired of racism claims if people don’t have an average IQ. Some people aren’t book smart. Some people aren’t street smart. Some people have or don’t have common sense. It’s not racism to not exercise your brain. The brain must be challenged to grow, yet we continue to excuse no intellectual challenge to increase knowledge. It’s pathetic. I have no idea how to post on instagram but could deduct the process via basic knowledge. Building basic knowledge is not racism.


42 posted on 09/28/2024 10:48:41 AM PDT by wgmalabama (Slug Slime is not art it’s just mucus to grease the wheels of servitude. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
She was the 2015-2016 President of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)

In other words, she is one of those responsible for not educating the children of the U.S., because she is too busy indoctrinating them through social engineering.

43 posted on 09/28/2024 10:53:35 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: DallasBiff

Do you want your family to own books that will last a hundred years or more? Then you don’t want digital.

I read an article of a writer of stories bemoaning how some of his writings are simply gone. He had lost whatever electronic records he had and can’t find them online, either. Just gone.


44 posted on 09/28/2024 10:54:57 AM PDT by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
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To: DallasBiff

Actually brick and mortar libraries are very important;

1. Most books are not on the internet.

2. Somebody with a keyboard can’t change a printed book.

3. There’s a certain sensualness to a book. Touch, smell and look that a screen doesn’t have. Perhaps that is why many people long for the old phone-books.


45 posted on 09/28/2024 10:56:59 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: UnwashedPeasant

LOL - well played!


46 posted on 09/28/2024 11:29:05 AM PDT by rockvillem
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To: DallasBiff

They are now collector’s items and interior decor ‘statements’. I’ve seen small units used to store craft or handiwork supplies, and spices.


47 posted on 09/28/2024 11:50:17 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DallasBiff

Racism: Wheel falls off airliner.


48 posted on 09/28/2024 11:56:15 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: fella

MUCH easier on the eyes as well - given decent reading illumination.


49 posted on 09/28/2024 12:03:20 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Romulus

Our local library has homeless people and drug addicts lying between the stacks.


50 posted on 09/28/2024 12:04:15 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: larrytown

The problem is that librarians tend to be Leftist moonbats, so there has ALWAYS been a gatekeeper for libraries.

For fun, walk up to some librarian who is screeching about “banned books” and ask her where their copy of The Turner Diaries is located.


51 posted on 09/28/2024 12:05:41 PM PDT by Bryanw92
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To: fella
3. There’s a certain sensualness to a book. Touch, smell and look that a screen doesn’t have. Perhaps that is why many people long for the old phone-books.

(smile) There's a Youtube channel with some math teacher who absolutely loves the smell and touch of a hard-copy book.

52 posted on 09/28/2024 12:07:15 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Bryanw92

She probably never heard of it. Most of today’s young leftist moonbats don’t know much of anything if it didn’t happen within the last few months.


53 posted on 09/28/2024 12:35:50 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Bryanw92

Don’t care about ‘librarians’ - physical libraries and archives are the only truly effective way to keep history from being rewritten and lost to the future.


54 posted on 09/28/2024 12:48:00 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: gitmo

What’s your point?


55 posted on 09/28/2024 2:12:42 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: DallasBiff

Dewey importantly organized library stacks and standardized it across libraries. These fools would all be chasing grants to institute what Dewey did 100 years ago.

The problem w/ Dewey is that he was a lecher. They got him on that, so every other accusation follows.


56 posted on 09/28/2024 3:53:10 PM PDT by nicollo (Remember when we had to close tags?)
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57 posted on 09/29/2024 6:45:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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58 posted on 09/29/2024 4:25:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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