The Death of Dewey

Christopher Harris' article in the September edition of School Library Journal discusses changes on the horizon for school libraries. He says libraries will become places that manage digital information, not books. He also says libraries will ditch the Dewey Decimal System and Sears Subject Headings for more user-friendly systems such as BISAC or Library Thing's Open Shelves' Classification System.

The typical school librarian has just gone into shock after reading these predictions. Harris makes the point, however, that we must accept this new reality and determine how we can lead our libraries into the future. Are we ready for the future? It's going to arrive whether we are or not, so we may as well begin thinking outside the library walls.