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Note, in the US there are two systems of cataloging books, the Dewey Decimal System and the Library of Congress Classification. Public libraries and school (Kindergarden to High School) libraries use Dewey, academic libraries, like at the University, use Library of Congress Classification. The library I work at uses Dewey.
A really hyper woman comes up to me wanting a book on "Soda Meyor, the Supreme Court justice". As I was looking to see if we had any books on Sonia Sotomayor (when I told her the right name, she was saying, "I don't know why I was calling her "Soda", when she's "Sonia"!") she started to ask if she was the first hispanic Supreme Court Justice. I told her I only can do one thing at a time, then she apologized, that "I was a school teacher and I learned to juggle 50 kids at a time, so I usually thinking about a lot of things at once."
So I give her the call number and she can't find it. She told me she didn't understand the system. I then said, "you were a school teacher?" She said that it looks different at the school. So I found the book for her and she ask me where I graduated from. I tell her and she says she graduated from Y school, "and that's why we don't get along." She was jovial but I think she was a bit crazy, so if she ever taught school, the kids or parents must have drove her crazy. But I'm going with the idea that she probably didn't graduate from college, the only time she might have been working at a school was as a office worker.
Then again, there are times people come in to the library, say they are school teachers, and can't do anything by themselves.
But teachers should know the Dewey system, since they are always sending kids to the school library to do projects.
A really hyper woman comes up to me wanting a book on "Soda Meyor, the Supreme Court justice". As I was looking to see if we had any books on Sonia Sotomayor (when I told her the right name, she was saying, "I don't know why I was calling her "Soda", when she's "Sonia"!") she started to ask if she was the first hispanic Supreme Court Justice. I told her I only can do one thing at a time, then she apologized, that "I was a school teacher and I learned to juggle 50 kids at a time, so I usually thinking about a lot of things at once."
So I give her the call number and she can't find it. She told me she didn't understand the system. I then said, "you were a school teacher?" She said that it looks different at the school. So I found the book for her and she ask me where I graduated from. I tell her and she says she graduated from Y school, "and that's why we don't get along." She was jovial but I think she was a bit crazy, so if she ever taught school, the kids or parents must have drove her crazy. But I'm going with the idea that she probably didn't graduate from college, the only time she might have been working at a school was as a office worker.
Then again, there are times people come in to the library, say they are school teachers, and can't do anything by themselves.
But teachers should know the Dewey system, since they are always sending kids to the school library to do projects.
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