And now, this from the Director of our In-resident Forgotten Hits Music History Department so that we all can plan ahead for tomorrow …
Huey and Louie! Meet Dewey!
Tomorrow, December 10th, marks the birthday, in 1851, of the man who invented the mind-numbing Dewey Decimal System of Library Classification, Melvil Dewey, who gave young Forgotten Hitters one of our most daunting elementary school subjects!
Even with the research ease of our Internet-dependent World
today, it’s still the most widely used classification system that’s being
taught in schools in over 135 countries.
And in those early formidable, pre-Google, years of Forgotten Hits, Kent many times turned to his local library’s numerous wooden cabinets with their nearly insurmountable number of drawers upon drawers of highly condensed book Index Cards . . .
. . . . . to find the artist and song information he wanted.
Plus, it was a Great Place to meet Girls!
So, in acknowledgement of this day and to salute this long-standing Manual Book Locator, here’s my “Chuck Buell Library Books Minute Medley!”
CB ( which stands for “Card-catalog Boy!”)
