tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post112641467189908161..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: It is amazingJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1126456536215838822005-09-11T12:35:00.000-04:002005-09-11T12:35:00.000-04:00This sounds so corny, but it really is like going ...This sounds so corny, but it really is like going to visit a friend when you have those spots that you know without having to look up. I still remember the place on the shelf in the Philadelphia public library I went to as a child that had my favorite novel of all time, Rebecca West's THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS, which I used to check out over and over again.<BR/><BR/>Lynn: HQ is a particularly good one, isn't it?!? All three of yours are ones that are usually represented on my shelves at home...<BR/><BR/>Gautam: Yes, those ones are standardized (and the ones that look like 808.11 are the Dewey decimal numbers that never got upgraded, mostly because the 'important' things in them are duplicated in the LoC-numbered collection); but there are usually a few other systems mixed in, like old systems that were idiosyncratic to the particular library & can sometimes look deceptively like LoC numbers (at Yale, for instance, quite a lot of books when I was there were still in a Yale class that might look like A 3534.Br3, which could easily be mistaken for one of the other ones if you weren't paying attention).Jenny Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1126419682427193462005-09-11T02:21:00.000-04:002005-09-11T02:21:00.000-04:00It's so exciting to find that someone else thinks ...It's so exciting to find that someone else thinks in LOC letters, too! There are so many reasons we're friends! HQ and GN and QM are my favorites, and they were on floor 2 of Butler stacks and in the back corner of the Bio library, sometimes a few things in Psych. I would love everything all in one place... Hurray for genius library planners!Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16148921455491716504noreply@blogger.com