Re: REMEMBER THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM?

Group 5 minus 1 · ‎03-11-2010

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.

AnikaBrodie · ‎03-10-2010

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.

"Faith, Hope, Love; the greatest of these is Love." ~The Silver Fox~

Bookplate · ‎08-19-2011

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.

Still Raining · ‎03-30-2014

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 😏

cindyNC · ‎08-01-2019

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!

kaydee50 · ‎02-07-2011

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

Bonkers1 · ‎07-29-2012

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

Enufstuff · ‎03-12-2010

@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.