The ontologically-challenged Librarian had not realised that labels are more than a joke.
Future categories may have a membership of more than one item.
(the IT consultant)
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01/04/2007
04/02/2007
gardens and their making
The great cache of gardening books must find a home. If I shelve them separately then I must start a non-fiction section by subject, organized within by specialism; Dewey looms.
But are gardens only earth and plants and soil and water and sky? Can they too be imaginary worlds like novels, filled with familiar characters? Should I shelve Mazes with formal detective stories, or Seasonal Undertakings with sad, autumnal Anita Brookner novels, or slide rose pruning alongside A Summer Birdcage?
Attractive, indeed rational as it seems, I have decided retrieval must be the first criterion ; non-fiction shelves by subject with internal divisions. Those who have recently compiled indexes may have to come to the aid of the Library.
But are gardens only earth and plants and soil and water and sky? Can they too be imaginary worlds like novels, filled with familiar characters? Should I shelve Mazes with formal detective stories, or Seasonal Undertakings with sad, autumnal Anita Brookner novels, or slide rose pruning alongside A Summer Birdcage?
Attractive, indeed rational as it seems, I have decided retrieval must be the first criterion ; non-fiction shelves by subject with internal divisions. Those who have recently compiled indexes may have to come to the aid of the Library.
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