The title of this post comes from the U.S. Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, in its description of what their collections do. My local library is nothing compared to this, but it is still important to me because it, too, does its part to inform, inspire, and engage. My photo this week is a glimpse of the nonfiction section in this library, a place where human knowledge is organized according to the Dewey decimal system, designed to be flexible enough to identify an unambiguous shelf location for books on everything from 000 (computer science) to 999 (extraterrestrial worlds).I love that the inherent complexity of human knowledge can be so structured, enabling anyone to find whatever they are looking for. Thank you, Melvil Dewey.
Posted in response to the WordPress photo challenge: Order
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Golly! I never knew Dewey had a first name! Thank you for introducing him to me.
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I confess – I didn’t know either, until I started looking into it for this post. He must have been an interesting person.
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He probably kept his friends in alphabetical order.
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