Table 3C. It's everyone's favorite table, right? Who can resist a table that rejoices under the snappiest of snappy titles ("Notation to Be Added Where Instructed in Table 3B, 700.4, 791.4, 808–809")? Where else can you find Count Dracula, Joan of Arc, and Odysseus in standing room at the same class (T3C—351 Specific persons)? Or a more complete list of the Dewey editors' collective preoccupations (T3C—353 Human characteristics and activities*)? And that's before you even start looking at the LC subject headings that have been mapped to T3C numbers over the years. Take T3C—3559 Customs, for instance. This is the notation we use to express the subjects of cocktails in literature, cries in literature, and "Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.)" in literature. Wondering how to handle the classic works on rabies in literature? T3C—3561 Medicine, health, human body is the class you need, and that one would work for pyromania in literature too. Back to T3C—353 and you'll find animal magnetism, brainwashing, humiliation, mistaken identity, sibling rivalry, and "Triangles (Interpersonal relations)" in literature. Donkeys in literature? That's easy: T3C—3629665. And for the latest blockbuster on nothing in literature ... well, look no further than T3C—384 Philosophic themes. Table 3C: we salute you.
* Alienation, chivalry, dreams, fear, friendship, happiness, heroism, justice, melancholy, personal beauty and ugliness, pride, sexual orientation, snobbishness, success, vices, and virtues.
Dr. Furner...you crack me up. It's like your subject cataloging class...but without homework :) --Sunshine Carter (MLIS grad from UCLA, ex-Subj. Cat. student)
Posted by: Sunshine Carter | 04 October 2005 at 11:29 PM