{"id":1558,"date":"2010-09-22T16:05:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T21:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:41","slug":"netflixanddewey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/22\/netflixanddewey\/","title":{"rendered":"Librarians Abandon Dewey Decimal System in Favor of Netflix Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1560\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1560\" href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/22\/netflixanddewey\/netflix-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1560\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/netflix1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/netflix1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/netflix1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/netflix1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">maxpower on flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So,\u00c2\u00a0 would YOU enjoy using a library that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronknews.com\/2010\/08\/11\/librarians-abandon-dewey-decimal-system-in-favor-of-netflix-categories\/\">classifies its books according to Netflix categories<\/a> instead of a &#8216;normal&#8217; library classification system like Dewey or Library of Congress?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There has definitely been some healthy debate as to where some of our  books will now live,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Poleman, recounting a particularly heated  debate about whether Emily Bronte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em> belonged in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Romantic Comedy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cerebral Drama\u00e2\u20ac\u009d section.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccablood.net\/archive\/2010\/09\/college_replaces_dewey_with_ne.html\"><strong>what&#8217;s in rebecca&#8217;s pocket?<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So,\u00c2\u00a0 would YOU enjoy using a library that classifies its books according to Netflix categories instead of a &#8216;normal&#8217; library classification system like Dewey or Library of Congress? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There has definitely been some healthy debate as to where some of our books will now live,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Poleman, recounting a particularly heated debate about whether Emily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/22\/netflixanddewey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Librarians Abandon Dewey Decimal System in Favor of Netflix Categories<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[147,146,150,149,145,148],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-information","tag-classification","tag-dewey","tag-libraries","tag-library","tag-netflix","tag-neveda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10222,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/10222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}