abbottthomas: Humor
March 2009>17 I would also assume this would be the place for critical works about humor. Yes? I wonder - wouldn't that live with other Lit. crit. wherever that is going? I fear you may be right...
View ArticleElijahMeeks: Agriculture
April 2009From my own work (Which takes an environmental historical perspective) I see each of these practices as related to something called "Ecosystems Services", which would include beekeeping (A...
View Articleimbibo: What is this?
April 2009>6 @comfypants: Right! No way we're using this as a feedback-only place. I (mistakenly) thought that it would be best if we jumped in with a lot of preparation, so as not to appear...
View Articlevpfluke: Fiction
April 2009#39 I think there is relatively little difference between thriller (tagged 118,175 times in LT) and suspense (tagged 62,390 times in LT). The top thriller novelists are: [[Dan Brown]]...
View Articlevpfluke: Science
April 2009#33 Thanks for pointing me back to the Archaeology thread (and I had actually read it). What I was thinking is that our sets of categories might include references to where that subcategory...
View ArticleHalieus: Biography & Autobiography
April 2009PS - I'm not advocating using my system as the end-all be-all for the OSC; put it out there to see how it would be torn apart and could be improved. This is the largest (maybe 2nd largest,...
View Articlesqdancer: General Knowledge
April 2009Our local library recently (within the past week or two) intershelved most of the Reference section into the main Non-fiction stacks. They believe it will enhance browsability and increase...
View Articlecomfypants: Performing Arts
April 2009I'm wondering about musical theater and opera, and whether they belong here or in Music or both. My instinct says both (at least for musical theater, not so sure about opera), but is that...
View Articlecomfypants: Anthropology& Sociology
April 2009Since no one else has given a stab at this one yet, I'll try. I'm basically just making some edits to BISAC. I don't know much about either of these fields. Anthropology > General...
View Articlecomfypants: A LITERATURE top-level... do we need it?
April 2009Something related to this discussion just occurred to me. How will the OSC handle documentary films (the sort that are the film equivalent of "non-fiction literature")? Would King of Kong end...
View Articlecomfypants: Film & Television
April 2009Also, technology is taking the direction of internet video streaming on your television rather than on your computer monitor, so I don't think "television" is likely to be an obsolete term...
View ArticleMunchkinguy: Things That Don't Fit in the Current Top-Level Model
April 2009>34 Genealogy would probably be considered under sociology.
View ArticleDeusExLibrus: Proposed Lower Levels
April 2009>15 In my experience African American fiction is by and usually also about Africa Americans.
View ArticleClassifyThis: ..... Tomorrow, the World!
May 2009Thank you, abbottthomas for starting this thread. I'll ask the same question that I asked in the Art Level Thread. >>I realize that Dewey is the most prevalent in terms of classification...
View Articlevpfluke: How Dewey works
May 2009# 19 What you have written is useful to know. At some point, people have talked about using facets to have a different dimension of classifying books. I think people want the OSC to be flexible...
View ArticleMunchkinguy: History
May 2009I'm not sure how Library and Archives Canada does it, but native cultural areas are usually divided into 6 categories, as described at...
View Articleoldfolkgc: Archaeology?
May 2009When I was at UCLA, archaeology was part of the Antropology Dept. in the College of Letters and Sciences. That was well in the last century. I believe, now, what with inter-disciplinary...
View Articleoldfolkgc: Shelf-order: How important is that to you?
May 2009My library is far smaller than most at LT, by a long shot. I tend not to save books unless they are of particular interest to me, and I planto reread from them at some future date. So, there is...
View Articlequyet: OSC gets leaders: Welcome David and Laena
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