Yonatan Zunger (zunger) wrote,
Yonatan Zunger
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Amusing facts about the Mountain View Public Library

The Odyssey is filed under non-fiction. When I asked the girl at the checkout desk about this, she said "That's weird. That's, like, science fiction, right?"

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen are filed under fiction, under their author -- Baron Munchausen.

The car manuals for Honda Civics are all filed under car manuals, but some years are under "Honda" and others under "Civic."

The catalogue lists identical books under separate entries, and often multiple copies of the same book are filed in different sections of the library.

Is there a librarian in the house? Anywhere?

(Although to be fair: Apart from the total lack of organization, it's a remarkably pleasant library. Very good places to sit and read or work.)
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The Great Dragon Knows All . . .

sdragon

August 22 2002, 02:50:15 UTC 13 years ago

I still say the Odyssey counts as Greek Sci-Fi, like Star Trek. Okay, now I'm getting urges to compare Voyager with the Odyssey . . . at least Janeway was less of a twerp than Odysseus.

The last person to file Baron Muchausen clearly read the book and mistook it for an embellished autobiography. Or perhaps it's meant as a joke just to mess with anal people like you who insist on everything being placed exactly right . . . ;P

Is there any logic to the division of years for the Honda Civic filing? Perhaps the "H" section was so overloaded, thus causing the library to settle unevenly, and to avoid a Pisa they moved some to "C". Are there similar trends with other cars?

Re: the multiple filing methods. They must have an ex-Navy person working in that library; it's clearly set up for maximum redundancy. A very clear case of redundancy.

Oh, you wanted a librarian . . . disregard this post.