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REMEMBER THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM?

Tinkrbl44 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 06:57:11 GMT

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Elodie2 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:58:35 GMT

Prehistoric googling is so true. I remember the card catalogues well. And going to the library for research books...if you waited too long all the good ones would be checked out. Heaven forbid should your voice rise above a whisper.

You were lucky if your family had the World Book Encyclopedia.

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Desertdi — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:42:05 GMT

Definitely! I spent hours, weeks, MAYBE YEARS in the library. (As I sit here now at a computer....thinking "WHAT A WASTE OF VALUABLE TIME").

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Group 5 minus 1 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:05:54 GMT

Yeah, I do. And I remember when you had to be quiet in the library.

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AngelPuppy1 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:22:08 GMT

I know this sounds rather stupid, but I admit that I don't go to a library except when they have a used book sale, so I don't even know how it works any more when you want to check books out. So, basically, how does it work when you are looking for a book and/or want to check a book out?? I guess I figured that the Dewey system was no longer used, but hadn't thought about it, so didn't know what was the replacement system. Thanks.

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lynnie61 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:31:50 GMT

Yes, but I still love a visit to the library. Our library is huge, is open 7 days, except summer Memorial Day to Labor Day, they close on Sundays. They are currently remodeling, making it even better. The hours are slightly less since the pandemic. I still love going there.

When we were young, my mom got a Encyclopedia section every week at the grocery store. All went in one binder. We used it all through grade school. It was HUGE. I think of all the encyclopedia salesman back in the day......

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Goldengate8361 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:22:40 GMT

There is something wonderful about getting lost in the stacks for hours....visiting sections of the library that you'd never "google."

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Beacon girl — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:32:01 GMT

I still remember it so well! You go to the card index file -look up your subject and go to the shelf it was on! Remember straightening books if out of place .

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Desertdi — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:33:48 GMT

"Mom...I HAVE to go the library after school"...

Of course, I didn't SAY the rest of it..."To meet my boyfriend"...

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AuntG — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:36:05 GMT

My major was Library Science, and that's what the college library had.

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Group 5 minus 1 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:47:31 GMT

As addendum to my posting: I now avoid our local library ,it has become a playground for children,too noisy. I'd like to see specials hours just for adults,no children. And not in the evening,many seniors do not get out after dark.

I got my first library card when I was 4 years old. I really enjoyed going to the library,not so much today and I want a BOOK,not an e-book.

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AnikaBrodie — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:00:38 GMT

Dewey System: Oh yes, I remember it well. I was a library assistant in my junior and senior years of high school. Memories, aren't they wonderful, and they are such good memories.

We are fortunate to have a small library at the Village Commons where we live. We also have a huge country library less than a half-mile from us. If they don't have the books we're looking for, they borrow from another inter- library loan service which is great.

Dear husband is an avid reader and always has 2 or 3 books on the go. For birthdays and Christmas and "just because" gifts it's always easy to buy a couple of books for him. He prefers hard cover books and adds them to our home library once read.

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Bookplate — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:09:52 GMT

Retired librarian here. Most public libraries in this country still use Dewey to classify books. Academic libraries use a different system, the Library of Congress classification system. Neither classification system has anything to do with card catalogs. Card catalogs started to be replaced with online catalog in the late 1980's, first in colleges and later in public libraries. The catalog, whether the old card one or the online one, tells you whether a library has a book and the classification scheme is the map to where the library shelves it.

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Still Raining — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:37:20 GMT

And those of us who dawdled had to actually walk over to the the library before it closed, look something up, check a book out and walk back to our dorm to work on a paper. Good times 😏

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cindyNC — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:13:42 GMT

I was at the small satellite library every Sat when I lived in Charlotte. They closed it. It was too difficult to find parking at the next branch and almost all the new books were checked out. That's when I switched to an eReader and started a paid membership with the Orange Co FL library!

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kaydee50 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:26:02 GMT

Much prefer the DDS to the Library of Congress system which is totally confusing to me.

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Bonkers1 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:30:32 GMT

I sure do remember it. I also remember it had a weird smell.

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Enufstuff — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:50:45 GMT

@Desertdi@lynnie61

I have always loved going to the library since I was in elementary school. When I was in high school, I spent many hours doing research projects and homework at the library. I loved being there. In high school, I worked at the school library.

I never thought of it as a waste of time. I'm still a research nerd and enjoy it.

Even pre-school, I had a love of books and my mother read many to me. I would ask her to read my favorites again and again.

When I had my five children, I started them as babies, going to the library to pick out books to take home. I also bought many books for them.

My oldest daughter wanted to learn to read when she was two years old. We started with just a couple of word cards a day. By five, she could read the books we had , before she even started school.

Like me, she is a research nerd, but mostly on the internet now.

@lynnie61 When my children were growing up, I also collected encyclopedias, weekly. Each volume was a bound book and the set took up two shelves in the bookcase.

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CrazyTimes — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:55:08 GMT

Been there, done that.

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bikerbabe — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:55:37 GMT

A library is one of the most important resources in society and should be supported and treasured. 💕