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Interesting News From AZ where the new Gilbert library will be the first public library in the nation whose entire collection will be categorized without the Dewey Decimal Classification System, Maricopa County librarians say.

Instead, tens of thousands of books in the Perry Branch library will be shelved by topic, similar to the way bookstores arrange books. The demise of the century-old Dewey Decimal system is overdue, county librarians say: It's just too confusing for people to hunt down books using those long strings of numbers and letters. Dewey essentially arranges books by topic and assigns call numbers for each book.
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The Boston Globe offers an interesting story that looks at the problems of collecting non-standard materials. Zine librarian Jenna Freedman is featured.

There is no preexisting librarians' code pertaining to how one should handle a document that includes a free prophylactic; Freedman stows the entire zine, ephemera and all, along with a rigid, acid-free cardboard backing in a plastic sleeve designed for comic books.

Terry Ballard writes "The blog Typo of the Day, formerly at typooftheday.blogspot.com has moved to a new home at librarytypos.blogspot.com . The Libtypos crew, known to the world as Database Protectors also maintains a wiki at libtypos.pbwiki.com/FrontPage, which lists the 100+ typos featured on the blog since its creation, and provides links to that day's posting.
A listserv from the group, that was created in 2000 on Yahoo groups was recently adopted by NELINET, thanks to a generous offer by NELINET's director Arnold Hirshon. You can subscribe by going to:

The nelinet.net List Page

This group provides frequent updates to information about errors in online catalogs, and its members volunteer to work the blog and wiki. Further information about this project can be obtained from Terry Ballard, Automation Librarian, the Arnold Bernhard Library, Quinnipiac University, Hamden CT, 06518. His email is terry.ballard at quinnipiac.edu"

Anonymous Patron writes "Greetings from Baltimore, where the 13th National Conference of the Association of College & Research Libraries is drawing to a close. To coincide with the conference, some sweeping changes have been announced by none other than the Library of Congress regarding how they handing the cataloging of materials."