Information Organization: The Dewey Debate Continues...

Monday, April 7, 2008

The Dewey Debate Continues...

Have our traditional organizational systems, like the DDC, outlived their usefulness? Is it time to reinvent the wheel? The Dewey debate rages on, and the Perry Branch Library makes an appearance in this video.

(In case you weren't convinced that YouTube has a video for every possible topic you might want to find...)

2 comments:

Melissa said...: To think I thought utube might one day fail to provide a video on a less popular topic such as this. Thanks for showing me I was wrong.

Also, I love the background you chose. :); April 10, 2008 at 9:56 PM
Kate Dunigan AtLee said...: It's true, YouTube does not disappoint. An incredible phenomenon :); April 11, 2008 at 9:11 AM

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Intro

This blog was created as part of a class project to discuss the ways in which information professionals organize information.

In the age of the Internet and the information explosion, information professionals are faced with the challenge of organizing massive amounts of information being created in a variety of formats, both in formal and in informal ways. How are we doing this? In order to discuss how information is being organized, we must also think about: Who is organizing
information and for whom? Who is accessing this information and by what means? I hope this blog will also elicit discussion on how we may need to change traditional ways of organizing information to fit new electronic production media and the changing needs of information users, i.e. all of us!

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