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    Visit BUBL home page BUBL home page

    http://bubl.ac.uk/

    Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas.

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    Visit Delaware's Library lovin' govenment - Library Journal Delaware's Library lovin' govenment - Library Journal

    http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6476389.html

    Apparently the Secretary of State in Delaware is "a librarian wannabe who's even cataloged her own books using the Dewey Decimal System." I know how that is.

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    Visit Creating the 21st Century Library -- In These Times Creating the 21st Century Library -- In These Times

    http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3298/creating_the_21st_century_library/

    Great interview with Megan Prelinger or the Prelinger Library in San Francisco - an unincorporated privately run 1700 sq. ft. library. They don't use Dewey or LC, but their own personal classification.

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    Visit Dewey Browser Dewey Browser

    http://deweyresearch.oclc.org/ddcbrowser/a14

    Handy way to discover Dewey numbers.

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    Visit Mr. Library Man wants you to speak up and ask questions Mr. Library Man wants you to speak up and ask questions

    http://www.modbee.com/opinion/community/story/54059.html

    Fun new column where a librarian gives flip answers to silly questions. I'm not sure he should have revealed that librarians have secret DDC numbers that we don't let others know about. What would Rupert Giles say?

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    Visit Dot Comment | Search bliss from Egypt to Dewey to Google to... | Straight.com Vancouver Dot Comment | Search bliss from Egypt to Dewey to Google to... | Straight.com Vancouver

    http://www.straight.com/article-105674/search-bliss-from-egypt-to-dewey-to-google-to

    The commentator runs through Jeet Heer's time line of information retreval part or which suggests that the 'modern age' of information retreval starts with DDC. Has a few details wrong (the library o congress didn't invent card catalogs) but and i… More

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    Visit BISAC Subject Headings BISAC Subject Headings

    http://www.bisg.org/standards/bisac_subject/major_subjects.html

    Bisac subject headings, listed out. It would be pretty simple to crosswalkk these with DDC.

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    Visit ALA TechSource | Raising Arizona ALA TechSource | Raising Arizona

    http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/07/raising-arizona.html

    So that Library in Arizona was actually swiching from DDC to a established standard ("BISAC"). That's something that's been missed in all of the coverage. Great description of the project here.

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    Visit Guide to the Collections: Cutter Collection Guide to the Collections: Cutter Collection

    http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/cutterguide.html

    The boston athenaeum's guide to cutter, an obscure alternative to DDC, by Melvil's contemporary and friend C.A. Cutter

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    Visit Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): Cutter Classification, Reloaded Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog): Cutter Classification, Reloaded

    http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2006/12/cutter-classification-reloaded.php

    The proposal to use Cutter numbers as an open source alternative to the limited access given to LOC and DDC.

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