September 5, 2022 - The Library Overview

We finally got all the books unboxed (some 150 boxes or so) and shelved. All the science fiction paperbacks are properly organized by author and author’s universe. By that I mean that a whole lot of different authors wrote Conan books, so rather than doing a strict “by author” sort, we keep them together instead of scattering them all over the place.

The nonfiction is a mess. We never did have it in any kind of order the last time it was set up in our previous home, Desert Timbers, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. What we are going to do this time is use the Library of Congress classification. Some books have this information in them others don’t. We use the LOC’s Quick Search page to search by ISBN or Author; if that doesn’t work, Amazon will often find it. 

In the worst case, such as the PowerPC 601 Users Manual, which doesn’t have an ISBN and isn’t in the Library of Congress., we take a guess at its classification using the Library of Congress Classification PDF files. So I found page 254 of Schedule T in them:

7889.A-Z Special computers. By name, A-Z 

7889.A37 AIM 65

7889.A66 Apple II

7889.A663 Apple IIe

7889.A85 AT&T

7889.B3 BBC microcomputer

7889.B4 Besm

7889.C2 CDC 6600

7889.E5 ES 1020

7889.F44 FELIX C-256

7889.I26 IBM Personal Computer 7889.I5 Illiac

7889.M33 Macintosh

7889.M55 Minsk

7889.R4 REAC

7889.S4 Seac

7889.S7 Strela

7889.S8 Swac

7889.T77 TRS-80

7889.U6 Univac

7889.U7 Ural

7889.W47 Whirlwind 7889.Z54 Zilog Model Z-80

Now we can see that the PowerPC User Manual would be classified as TK.7889.P01.PowerPC. The 01 is a guess, I don’t really understand the cutters that well, I haven’t finished the online training.

Here’s a look at bay 4.