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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alenda" data-source="post: 2836386" data-attributes="member: 15215">Absolutely... In fact, there's a good chance I may have met your acquaintances if any of them attended the recent conference in Wilmington, NC "Digital Preservation in State Government: Best Practices Exchange 2006." Government docs librarians and archivists from all over the country were there.Craftyrat, I'm not sure how a forum for librarian gamers would go, but feel free to start a thread. You can call it "Attention Librarians" or something silly like that and we can gripe about librarian stuff  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ssampier, a cataloger would crucify you for saying that the Library of Congress cataloging system sucks. It's actually way more flexible and easier to use than the Dewey Decimal System. When Dewey was invented, a lot of book topics didn't exist (e.g. computers), so catalogers have had to squeeze those topics into a system that really didn't allow for much flexibility.As an interesting aside, Duke University was (up until recently) the largest library in the country using the Dewey Decimal System. Their call numbers were 10 or 12 digits long and often times completely wrapped around the book's spine. They are finally in the process of migrating their call numbers to Library of Congress which is a monumental undertaking, but absolutely necessary if they want to keep their catalogers sane.</blockquote>

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