Breaking news: new Dewey number!

The A Library By Any Other Name blog is written by a cataloger and friend from the Spring Branch ISD. The woman is definitely a cataloger with a sense of humor!

Earlier this week, she reported that a recent event had caused the need for a new Dewey number – 973.932 – and asked her readers to guess in the post comments what the new number might be used for.

I won’t make you play the guessing game. (The picture probably gives it away anyway.) The answer comes from The Dewey Blog (who knew there was such a thing?)

973.932.

Barring the unforeseen, the next period in U.S. history will begin on January 20, 2009, with the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44^th President of the United States. The updates to Dewey are underlined below:

973.93       2001–

973.931             Administration of George W. Bush, 2001–2009

973.932             Administration of Barack Obama, 2009–

Now you know.

Image citation: Barack Obama. Uploaded on July 6, 2007 by Llima. Some rights reserved.

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