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finding relevance in the library
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as i brouse through the stacks of the Chicago Public Library i find things that advance my general program of learning. sometimes it is new information. sometimes it is a clarification to something i already knew. sometimes it is important material in a field i have been active in. this blog is a collection of these results, with full documentation of book titles, etc. and library of congress call letters.
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the Dewey Decimal System and the Library of Congress Classification
i became interested in library book classification systems when i was a student at Yale and observed there the transition the library went through from its own classification system to the Library of Congress system. with several million books there ...
sunspot magnetic polarity cycle
The Complete Idiot's Guide to The Sunby Jay M. Pasachoff, Ph.D.Alpha, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.QB 521.P37 2003pp. 20-21i had always thought that susspots changed magnetic polarity every 11 years simply uniformly throughout a hemisphere. th...
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Thinking Economically, How Economic Principles Can Contribute to Clear Thinking, by Maurice LeviNew York: Basic Books, 1985LC HB71.L53 1985"...the extra satisfaction from consuming more will eventually decline. The economist believes that this is tr...
Plato on the song of a swan near death
The Collected Dialogues of Plato Including the Lettersed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington CairnsPrinceton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989LC B358.C57pp. 67-8“Evidently you think that I have less insight into the future than a swan; because wh...

