{"id":2098,"date":"2007-06-24T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=346"},"modified":"2007-06-24T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T05:00:29","slug":"alphabeticalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/24\/alphabeticalization.html","title":{"rendered":"Alphabeticalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/62286\/The-Last-Link-is-a-Reward-for-Getting-Through-the-First-Link\">neat little post on MetaFilter<\/a> on the history of alphabetization.\u00a0 We take it for granted, but someone had to develop the system (and I am sure someone else was there to say &#8220;what&#8217;s wrong with the way we do it now?&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Buried somewhat within the comments (which on many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/\">MetaFilter<\/a> posts can be more interesting than the posts themselves) was a link to the Straight Dope&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/mailbag\/mdeweydecimal.html\">background on the Dewey Decimal System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(warning:\u00a0 MetaFilter can be a not-safe-for-work place; there is no telling what types of topics will be posted)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neat little post on MetaFilter on the history of alphabetization.\u00a0 We take it for granted, but someone had to develop the system (and I am sure someone else was there to say &#8220;what&#8217;s wrong with the way we do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/24\/alphabeticalization.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-xQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}