Meticulous cataloging

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I have just discovered that the Dewey Decimal system has an entire number, 098, reserved for "Prohibited works, forgeries, hoaxes".

I'm betting that's half the books in the FH library.

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[swerval_zero]

Well, now we know the catalogue number for Special Collections...

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I figure you guys aren't using LC, so yeah.

[janet_fraiser]

You presume we're using any real system here. Our library is fictional and our organizational system is determined at random the whim of the semi-sentient living being that the library is. :)

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It may be imaginary, but Cataloging is a black art, and I'm sure all of you are intimately familiar with it as such.

(Come on, you've got chairs, you've got food, you've got squid -- surely you have a card catalog?)

[swerval_zero]

We do, but mostly, we have Zero, who accidentally signed a dark contract with the library. In blood.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Don't you just hate when that happens? At least you didn't sign away your redemption, unlike certain broody, overly hair gelled vampires I could mention.

[swerval_zero]

Yes, well, these things happen. If the Library'd just stop making her chase people with the croquet mallet, she'd be okay with it.

Certain broody vampires with hair gel obsessions should really have known better. Just sayin'.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

*g* Zero's just the only one who's given into the urge to do so.

He so definitely should have. Maybe all the gel ate his brain.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

*hides Cameron*

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Sheppard is SO DEAD.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

What? Why? *confused*

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He doesn't use hair gel, he uses hair epoxy. By the carboy.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Oh! *snickers*

Sorry, I forgot you're a different player and might not have seen. Zero went after Cameron with her mallet because he didn't properly check out a book.

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Damn. Sorry I missed that.

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

*suspects Geoff may have written some of them* Very cool to know

[godinakilt.livejournal.com]

What amuses me the most about the Dewey Decimal system is that all the books on computers are sandwiched between the unexplained and the paranormal, and the occult.

*is not a nerd*

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You want to hear really annoying? 201:289 are reserved for Christianity. All other religions are crammed into 291:299. All of them. Yes, Dewey was a man of his time.

*is totally a nerd, and a geek too*