Personanondata: Go for the Dew(ey)

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Go for the Dew(ey)

The BBC goes looking to see if Dewey is still relevant in today's (UK) libraries and along the way they discuss some of the history of Mr. Dewey and his evident psychological 'issues'. These issues may have materially impacted the development of the system. So I guess, we should be happy that Prozac wasn't available. One other note: No mention of OCLC.

This audio article appeared on BBC Radio 4. Link. It is about 20mins and if you are a Dewey know-it-all you are not going to get much out of this.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Michael Cairns

Michael Cairns is currently Head of Partner and Channel Development for the publishing unit of the American Psychological Association which is a $100million scholarly, academic and educational publisher. In this role, he is responsible for all sales and marketing activities supporting the revenue base and working with current and new partners to expand APA's publishing program and mission. Michael Cairns has served as President, CEO and CRO of several brand name publishing, technology and content-centric businesses. His career includes a wide range of publishing and information products, services and B2B categories and his operating and consulting experience has largely been with brand-name companies such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Macmillan, Inc., Berlitz International, AARP, R.R. Bowker and Wolters Kluwer. Mr. Cairns has also served on boards including the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and also served as Chairman of the International ISBN Executive Committee.