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Favorite authorsMargaret Atwood, Chitra Divakaruni, Michael Faber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Anaïs Nin, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Tom Robbins, Alice Sebold, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Kurt Vonnegut (Shared favorites)

About me"Some say they saw in me innocent poetry
Some say they'll never be certain"

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It was nice to meet you too. Let's keep in touch about OSC thoughts.
I'm sort of a student of classification systems and would be curious to see yours if you so wished. Re the Open Source Classification, i wish the project success -- however, i don't think it will serve the purposes of my collection(s) all that well. But then i'm wierd. I'm kind of developing a general; classification based somewhat (with definite changes) on the Broad System of Ordering with other influences. I think it maybe it will work. I use the system more bibliographically than physically but ultimately it would be intended for both purposes. I sometime soon will have more clear comments about it on my web site -- tho not right this minute! ;) Anyway thanx for adding me as a friend!
PS- And altho we only share 5 books you have some authors that i really really like but are not currently in my library -- Margaret Atwood, Flannery O'Connor and Kurt Vonnegut quickly come to mind. When i was a music major in Georgia College (Milledgeville GA), Flannery O'Connor's alma mater, i had a job as a choir director at the local Catholic Church and Flannery O'Connor's mother, very elderly, was a parishioner and i met her once.
We only have 5 books in common, but i was reading your post about Dewey in one of the Build the Open Source Classification group's threads. And i see that you are sufficiently interested in classification that one of the books we share is "Sorting Things Out" by Bowker, which i've barely started but it looks interesting. I want to get into it when i have the time to get into it and absorb -- it's not the kind of thing i can just skim through lol. And i see one of the other books we share is the wonderful gem "Transit Maps of the World" -- i am a "transit buff".

I think the Open Shelves Classification is a great idea and i want to be as involved as i practically can. I agree with you about Dewey. Certainly it needs changing but -- it's way unbalanced on the way it does notation in some areas esp. the 200s and 400s -- but the patterns and the mnemonics are a great feature. Between Dewey and LC Dewey wins hands down i think. But there can be better. But OSC should use as simple a coding system as possible and definitely make use of recurring patterns.

Anyway, cheers!

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