Comments on: Librarian Gets Tattoo of the Harry Potter Dewey Decimal Number – GWS Reader Ink

By: Saucy Librarian

Saucy Librarian — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:08:53 +0000

Actually Dewey created his cataloging system as a way to manage every book in a library, fiction and non-fiction. If you take a cataloging course you’ll find that one can actually apply a myriad a Dewey numbers to any given item based on the various subjects and topics in the book. The single number that a book winds up being labeled with is up to the discretion of the cataloger based on the needs of the library and patron base.

Most libraries choose to only catalog he non-fiction collection under the Dewey system but if you go to your library you will still find plenty of fiction there anyway. Poetry and classic literature is often shelved there for example.

As far as changes to the system rendering my tattoo invalid, my view is that the system can change quite a bit but most libraries don’t have the time or funding to re-label and re-catalog their whole collection because of it. My tattoo will always be relevant to the time I got it: when I finished my master’s degree.

You don’t have to love it as much as I (still) do, but if you think I’m going to regret it or have It removed, I kindly disagree. :)

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:32:34 +0000

Wish I could fast forward to her when she’s 50 and get her thoughts. She’ll probably have it lasered off by then. How embarrassing.

By: Genna

Genna — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:36:12 +0000

Good to know that she knows the difference from fact and fiction

By: John

John — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:23:33 +0000

Dewey Decimal system is for non-fiction. Last I checked, Harry Potter is fiction. FAIL

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By: jlopez2099

jlopez2099 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:04:05 +0000

To the librarian with the freshest tattoo I have ever seen: You are my dream girl.

By: slow

slow — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:40:17 +0000

great article, would have been worth my time if the images loaded sometime this century

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:47:31 +0000

But she’s screwed if it changes with one of the many updates to the Dewey Decimal System.

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By: LoveTrain

LoveTrain — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:05:36 +0000

As Bugs Bunny would say,
“What a maroon!”