May. 1st, 2005

HELP

May. 1st, 2005 09:43 am
nocturnus33: (Default)
I'm under the attack of the killing books!

Problem one: I mean, we have an apply physic problem; why on hell the books, that fit perfectly in the first floor, can't find space in the same shelfs at the second floor?

Is like those hellish problem solving from school: two trains in opposite direction at a speed of...(you get the idea)

I will never be ok with my sinuses infection if I'm surrounded by books dust everywhere I turn.

Problem two, is that I reach the point that I need a library management program, a simple one. Last year I lost 25 volumes. I always handdle them by sight; I mean, I watch my shelves and knew exactly where a book was. Not any more.

Any rec, I'm googleling to get tips on how to organized a domestic library. I find The Dewey Decimal System or the twenty major classes of Library of Congress, a little too much for me ...yet (I plan to conquer the world someday).
I'm so bad in clasification, of any kind. I always found the similarities on topics.
I mean what the hell this is supoused to be:

300-399: Social Sciences; why is different from:

100-199: Philosophy and Psychology
200-299: Religion (I have theology, it is a social discipline)
400-499: Languages (I have linguisitics and semiotics, same problem)
900-999: History, Geography (Isn't a social science?)

And what this is suppoused to be:
600-699: Applied science. Researches? of which kind?

Besides the whole social Sciences and Natural Sciences division sounds rubish to me, but thank God (for my classification porpouses) I had little "Natural Science" volumes. How do this guys define sciences? I smell the classical Hard and Soft science prejuice here. And that will NOT enter my library.

I'm definetly not a librarian. I always thought I would had been a good one. Not any more.

In any case, Dewey is the one that make more sense to me. Is Dewey a common surname, or could this man be John Dewey the philosopher?

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On a funny note, today is workers day, but somehow in Chile, we find our self celebrating Work Day.

Duh! Minor linguistic turn, mayor implicances.
nocturnus33: (Default)
I might have my books in the floor, but get this text from medieval (?) salamanca library, it looks nice in my wall:


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(Translation, it is written in ancient spanish)

There is excomunion, reserved to his Hollyness, for any person whom take, cleared, it sustract, or by any other mean alienate some book, parchment, or paper from this library, without they can't be acquitted (forgive?) until they completly restore them.

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