1. I don't remember learning how to read. Presumably I did learn at some point. I miss knowing what that "eureka" moment was like for me.
Me neither. As far as I know, I have *always* known how to read. My mom thought I learned when I was three; at least that's when she noticed. (She had tucked my sister and me around her on the sofa to read us the "funnies" from the Sunday paper -- this was probably the old Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph -- and I started reading them to her. I do not remember this incident, myself, but that's the way she remembered my learning to read. "I never taught you," she insisted.)
I have a book on slide rule use that I, um, appropriated for myself when the library was weeding the math section a few years back. Alas, it's not the Asimov. I actually do still have my slide rule from high-school around somewhere, but I forget just where now. I tried to use it a few years ago, and remembered how to do multiplication (and, by extension, division) but not much else.
Most very large libraries use the Library of Congress Classification because it allows you to get much more specific within fewer characters of "call number" space. (Dewey can be *very, very* specific but this often requires drawing the call number out way beyond what will fit the width of the book spine.) Most smaller (K-12, many small colleges, and all but very large public) libraries use Dewey because it's easier, also because it was in use first (invented 1876. Librarians can be very conservative about such things because it's a pain in the you-know-where to make huge changes in how your collection is cataloged).
Cutter is one of a handful of "other" classifications that were developed but never quite caught on because the big two took hold on the cataloging world. (This happened early in the 1900s.) But "Cuttering" (often spelled with a small "c") lives on, and is still a part of most LC and Dewey call numbers; it's the term for the initial-and-number or letters that stand for the author's name (or the first word in the title) that is the last part of the call number, enabling shelvers to get books in order by the name/1st word within each subject classification.
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Date: 2005-12-14 06:07 (UTC)Me neither. As far as I know, I have *always* known how to read. My mom thought I learned when I was three; at least that's when she noticed. (She had tucked my sister and me around her on the sofa to read us the "funnies" from the Sunday paper -- this was probably the old Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph -- and I started reading them to her. I do not remember this incident, myself, but that's the way she remembered my learning to read. "I never taught you," she insisted.)
I have a book on slide rule use that I, um, appropriated for myself when the library was weeding the math section a few years back. Alas, it's not the Asimov. I actually do still have my slide rule from high-school around somewhere, but I forget just where now. I tried to use it a few years ago, and remembered how to do multiplication (and, by extension, division) but not much else.
Most very large libraries use the Library of Congress Classification because it allows you to get much more specific within fewer characters of "call number" space. (Dewey can be *very, very* specific but this often requires drawing the call number out way beyond what will fit the width of the book spine.) Most smaller (K-12, many small colleges, and all but very large public) libraries use Dewey because it's easier, also because it was in use first (invented 1876. Librarians can be very conservative about such things because it's a pain in the you-know-where to make huge changes in how your collection is cataloged).
Cutter is one of a handful of "other" classifications that were developed but never quite caught on because the big two took hold on the cataloging world. (This happened early in the 1900s.) But "Cuttering" (often spelled with a small "c") lives on, and is still a part of most LC and Dewey call numbers; it's the term for the initial-and-number or letters that stand for the author's name (or the first word in the title) that is the last part of the call number, enabling shelvers to get books in order by the name/1st word within each subject classification.