Re: 917 vs. 970s

[Kim Monaco <kimberleym@ATT.NET>]

I love Dewey. Where I am a public librarian, I deal with this often. From
how I see it, a brilliant person decided to move straight history to the
higher 900s and keep the 910s travel related books. That does leave a
problem as many collections now are lucky enough to have it "everywhere"- we
do have some history left there in the lower 900s, and it was too much of a
hassle to change it for collocation's sake. Some has been weeded since they
have some pretty ancient copyrights and would give misinformation, and old
travel books may be bye-bye as well for the same reason.
Decade books and some geography are in the lower 900s, too- don't have the
DDC in front of me to know the exact localtions, but I do know that it is
frustrating.
I am sure that wherever the collection is located (school or public) we're
running into the same problem.

Kim Monaco
Reference Librarian
http://home.att.net/~kimzinnie2/library.htm

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