I try to explain (briefly) library classification (Dewey Decimal) and "verbal" subject headings, what's searched on when you do a subject search, here I don't have first hand knowledge about how school libraries are organized in Calgary but I'm...
Think of trying to find a book in the Library of Congress with no database, no card catalog, no Dewey decimal system. The Library of Congress does not use the Dewey Decimal System to classify materials.
First, I think it's time to end comparing everything to the Dewey Decimal System. Whereas the old, Dewey-style taxonomies involved graybeards figuring out in advance how things should be categorized, tagging is done on the fly, adapting to the...
