Fin?

Well, the class is about over, and Dr. O'Connor had some words of advice in a final posting of his to continue to "play" with new technologies and so forth (you never know what new discoveries could be made while just "playing around"!) but he also warned against addiction to technological phenomena, saying that there's a fine line between experimentation and such...Witness our addiction with the internet and now iphones...!Lucha contra la addiccion!

Dui y Cutr (Dewey probablemente lo habria escrito asi)

I recently learned something interesting about two historical figures in the library world which was news to me...In the late 19th century, Melvil Dewey was apparently found to be messing around with accounting books or something like that when dealing with multiple libraries, thus ending his relationship with Charles Ammi Cutter. Dewey and Cutter had been collaborating together on a classification system using BOTH elements of the Dewey Decimal and LC classification systems we know today before their working relationship terminated. Each man had been developing his respective system before they had decided to work together; it's interesting to think what type of joint system would have been produced by a fusion of Dewey and LC! Of course, Dewey's decimal system became more popular with public libraries for many reasons, not the least of which being that Dewey was better at promoting himself and his ideas than Cutter. The latter spent more time honing and improving his own system which has traditionally been adopted by academic libraries. While both systems have their proponents and opponents, Dewey's system is being looked upon more critically in recent times, with some public libraries even dropping the system altogether (and suffering the wrath of many in the process!)...