>> Library systems assign attributes (classes) to books. Sometimes a
book arrives that doesn't fit in any existing class so the librarian
has to create a new one. The new class then gets communicated to every
other librarian. <<
Bad example. We have the Dewey Decimal Classification and Library of
Congress systems in libraries today because they needed to stop doing
that. If a librarian has a question about the code for a book, they
go to the LOC card on the website and use what is there -- a single
trusted source for the information, as opposed to creation on the fly.
Received on Tue Jun 10 2003 - 11:53:43 CDT
