That whole section of the Dewey system is strange. Programming, computers, journalism, library science, then witchcraft, the unexplained, fung shui, tarot.
Like why aren’t the computer books sorted next to science and math topics? Or electronics? Who decided this? (Dewey was long dead before people started writing computer books).
That classification is the general information section, and deals with info and not how its used. Seems like when computers came about they saw them as information storage systems.
That whole section of the Dewey system is strange. Programming, computers, journalism, library science, then witchcraft, the unexplained, fung shui, tarot.
Like why aren’t the computer books sorted next to science and math topics? Or electronics? Who decided this? (Dewey was long dead before people started writing computer books).
That classification is the general information section, and deals with info and not how its used. Seems like when computers came about they saw them as information storage systems.
Mr Dewey is definitely the type who’d call tech support for a problem that can be fixed by “turning it off and on again.”
Just Nerd Things? It’s the only explanation i can come up with, at least when taking the time when this was decided into account