[Web4lib] RE: [lita-l] Innovation: NYT article on Dewey-less Arizona public library

[K.G. Schneider]

Librarians in general seem to come off as fuddy-duddies resistant to change
and innovation, e.g., "On Web sites where librarians frequently post, the
abandonment of Dewey has not been welcome. One blogger titled her entry
'Heresy!' Another called the Perry Branch's approach 'idiotic.'"

Bernie Sloan

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The reporter didn't make that stuff up, and you can peruse the PUBLIB
archives for more examples of the same. (I can't seem to get access to
AUTOCAT, no matter how many times I try to register, so I can't speak for
that list.)

It was disappointing to me that most of the reaction on the PUBLIB list was
about how it was not going to work... before the project even launched. The
general trend of most posts are now, "Well, it would work under very limited
circumstances, BUHHHHHHHHHHT..." 

I didn't know we had so much invested in Dewey. Me, I thought it was an
inventory system. 

Karen G. Schneider