Recognizing that people are much more comfortable with a video store model of finding DVD's by topic or genre (drama, comedy, home improvement, etc.) rather than by fiddling with those pesky Dewey Decimal numbers, that's how my library organizes them. This is a big improvement over filing every single feature film in the system- several thousand of them- under one number. And library geek points to the person who can Name That Dewey Decimal Number! (see below for answer) Poor Melvil- he didn't have these crazy moving pictures around to mess up his decimals back in the day.
Anyway, it's still not a perfect system, partly because we have the same categories for adult and children's DVD's. Which results in things like this:
Easy DVD- Personal Growth
As far as personal growth goes, it seems like kind of a gimme to me. But I guess toddlers need to have something to talk about in their support/play groups, too.
Answer to geek bonus question: 791.4372
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Coda: I was just thinking about what the category might be if this were a toddler-centric system of organization. How about "Learning to not poop on friends, family, and self." Kind of describes Personal Growth too, dontcha think?
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