[wizzwizz4]

The Dewey Decimal classification system is ridiculously flawed, and no self-respecting library uses it these days (unless it always has, and hasn't got around to re-organising). Even my school's little one-room library didn't, something I found annoying at first, but came to appreciate.

[yardstick]

Disagree that it’s ridiculously flawed. It has issues like any system, but it still works well the majority of the time.

> no self-respecting library uses it these days (unless it always has, and hasn't got around to re-organising).

The vast majority of library systems have been around long enough where Dewey was the defacto choice (or LCC). Just checked a few like the British Library, the French National Library, and all the other libraries I’ve looked up now in London, all Dewey.

[IncRnd]

"Libraries in the United States generally use either the Library of Congress Classification System (LC) or the Dewey Decimal Classification System to organize their books. Most academic libraries use LC, and most public libraries and K-12 school libraries use Dewey." [1]

[1] https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit03/libraries03_04.pht...

[ajmurmann]

What are some alternative systems? I'd expect that any categorization system for content needs to make subjective choices.

[QuercusMax]

Library of Congress is the standard for academic and professional institutions, at least in the US.