What would Freud think?, or, For the puzzle junkies among you
The night life of a Dewey editor has its moments. From time to time I have awakened to the
realization that I had been dreaming a blog, or Weekly List (LCSH-to-DDC) mappings,
or an expansion. (In my first week or
two here, I dreamed I had been asked to work on developing a standard
subdivision for things! Joan’s comment,
after a pause that perhaps masked concern that I might actually think that
possible, was simply, “Massive dual provision.” Duh.) A
few days ago I awakened and realized I had been dreaming Dewey in the context
of doing a crossword puzzle. After a few
seconds’ amusement, I thought, “Why not?” So, draw yourself a five-by-five grid, and have fun! Answers and explanations will be posted next week.
Unless indicated otherwise, numbers come from DDC 22. Decimal points are omitted from all numbers;
all numbers are five digits. And just to
keep things a little more interesting, one number is drawn from each of the main
classes, except one (since 1 down and 1 across necessarily come from the same
main class).
ACROSS
1 Superconductivity
2 General classification schemes
3 Sami
4 Initiation of business enterprises devoted to literature
5 Crossword puzzles (abridged)
DOWN
1 People with physical disabilities in technology
2 Geography, history, chronology, persons in the Apocrypha
3 Dreams
4 Criminal law of Venezuela
5 Mechanical wave theory
I love the potential of this as a DDC teaching tool. The cataloging students would enjoy doing it as a puzzle with a result that gives closure.
Posted by: Cheryl Tarsala | December 14, 2008 at 02:16 PM