[Dtb-talk] Mis-Categorized books on BARD

[Hyde, David W. (ESC)]

Greg, good explanation. Remember too, Dewey aside, books can be listed under several categories in the system. Gulliver's Travels, by John Swift, for example, could be listed as fantasy, English Literature, Classics, and could, because of some of the scenes be listed as a book containing sexual material, obscenity, and (if you were not one of the round heads) disturbing literature. It should also be classified as satire, political commentary, and of course historical fiction. Some have treated it as travel, travel fiction, and science fiction. 

Classification is an art, not a science, even though those who do it, and do it well, may have a degree in Library Science. The good thing is that if you can't find what you really want, the librarians know their system better than most of us care to. In the words of Spider Robinson,
"never anger a librarian. They secretly run the world.:



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From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Greg Kearney
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 7:13 PM
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Please folks this is a very hard thing to. The cataloguing of books is more art than science and is totally a matter of interpretation. The books dealing with cataloguing would take up many meters of shelf space. The Dewey Decimal System is, for example, described in four large volumes. The Library of Congress lists over 150 genre of books.
Picking the right one every time is a really difficult task. We librarians are only human after all and mistakes are going to happen.

If your find a book that you think has been misidentified you might want to look it up in the LOC catalogue and then contact the NLS.


On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Dewey Bradley <deweyspr at mediacombb.net> wrote:
> Are we shore that when this happends, its not do to the book jacket 
> and the publisher?
> I'm just asking because I've never noticed this my self, not saying it 
> doesn't happen.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Ellen" <gabias at telus.net>
> To: "'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 5:54 PM
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>
>> I'm sure NLS staff would appreciate being told when books are 
>> improperly categorized.  No one wants mistakes to remain permanently on the web site.
>>
>> I noticed a few science fiction books categorized as science, but I 
>> wasn't courteous and helpful enough to bring the matter to anyone's attention.
>> Thank you, Dale, for pointing out how important correct categories can be.
>> The next time I find a book I think should be placed differently, 
>> I'll use the "contact" link to let someone know.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>> [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dale Heltzer
>> Sent: April 8, 2011 12:45 PM
>> To: 'Discussion of Digital Talking Books'
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>> Why aren't the current QCS's doing better?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>> [mailto:dtb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Freeman
>> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:39 PM
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>>
>> Where is the money to hire more quality control specialists?
>>
>>
>> Mike Freeman
>> sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>> On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:51, Dale Heltzer <deheltzer at msn.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Who else is bothered by the many errors in categorizing titles on 
>>> the BARD site?
>>> Where is their Quality Control?
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Dale E. Heltzer
>>> deheltzer at msn.com
>>>
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