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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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
LOL - well played!
They are now collector’s items and interior decor ‘statements’. I’ve seen small units used to store craft or handiwork supplies, and spices.
Racism: Wheel falls off airliner.
MUCH easier on the eyes as well - given decent reading illumination.
Our local library has homeless people and drug addicts lying between the stacks.
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.
(smile) There's a Youtube channel with some math teacher who absolutely loves the smell and touch of a hard-copy book.
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.
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.
What’s your point?
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.
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