That kind of "mastering Dewey in 2 days" thing is the kind of nerd-claim statement that puts me off this latest series - it's a trend in televisual science fiction, which as far as I can tell started with Babylon 5, for all the characters to communicate in braggy nerd speak....
To get back to topic, dewey isn't that bad.... probably didn't use subdivisions, I'm guessing!
It would be more impressive to master UDC or LCC in the same time.... now that would be science fiction!
Martin Kelleher
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There's 'thinking' that you've mastered it, and actually mastering it!
And did she mean mastering as a borrower or as a librarian? I suspect
the latter!
Pat Willimott
Park Lane College
We were also dubious of Donna's claim to have mastered Dewey in 2 days!
Gillian Hanlon
Information Officer, SLIC
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Enjoyable twaddle, in that libraries did feature prominently. In a
previous episode, the Doctor's assistant boasted that she had mastered
the "Duo-decimal" system in two days--I am still trying, after 37 years!
Duncan T.D. Irvine,
Head of Bibliographic Control,
University of Strathclyde,
GLASGOW G4 0NS,
United Kingdom
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> discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Timothy
> Collinson
> Sent: 12 June 2008 12:42
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> Subject: Re: Doctor Who does books
>
> Now that the episodes have been broadcast I feel I can comment, but
> back in April Alison McNab wrote:
>
> > In the Year of
> > Reading, it is good to see that the new series of Doctor Who (which
> kicks
> > off on Saturday) features two episodes set in a library and one
> episode which
> > features Agatha Christie's ten-day disappearance and
> provides viewers
> with the opportunity to
> > "spot how many titles of Christie novels are hidden in the
> dialogue".
>
> Mixed feelings here in our library about the quality of that episode
> (some loved it, some hated it), but all enjoyed playing spot the
> title.
>
>
> > A two-part story Silence in the Library and River's Run
>
> I think the 2nd part was called 'Forest of the Dead'. [OK, have just
> been looking on Wikipedia and found it's name was changed late in the
> day].
>
> > apparently promises "an abandoned library, moving shadows, the
> gruesome
> > Nodes, and the horrifying Data Ghost" - the Radio Times
> reviewer says
> the
> > latter is "possibly the most spine-chilling scene I've ever seen,
> > anywhere".
>
> The promises were right! Of course I only watch to keep my
> 13 year old
> daughter company :-) but they were quite spine-chilling.
> Not quite as
> terrifying as 'Blink' with the stone angels IMO - but then I avoid out
> and out horror films so I have a low 'scary' threshold!
>
>
> > Can't help feeling there is scope for Friday afternoon lis-link
> musings on
> > Data Ghosts and digital preservation.......
>
>
> I know it's not Friday yet but the library planet was interesting for
> a few reasons:
>
> First, it's sheer *scale*. It made Asimov's citywide planet Trantor
> look positively parochial - ISTR it had a library but only as a part
> of the city.
>
> Second, it was curious in that although I think the Doctor said it had
> every book ever written wasn't it said that they were *reproductions*
> of the originals? So it hinted at digital preservation working in
> that the masters must have existed to produce the reprints, but that
> readers would still prefer to read hard copies. The question arose in
> my mind as to what happened to print on demand?!
>
> Looking at some of the shelves in the library, it did appear that a
> lot of books were reproduced with standardised bindings which would be
> a loss. But to be fair we saw so little of the entire Library we may
> just happened to have seen some series or sets or some such.
>
> Thirdly, the 'hard drive' at the core of the planet reminded me a lot
> of the giant city sized computers of science fiction from the 50s and
> 60s. (Asimov again and Multivac for example). Do I take it the
> miniaturization we see at present doesn't continue to the 51st
> century?
>
>
> And no prizes for knowing library staff with less life than the data
> nodes...
>
> tc
>
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