Farmy Decimal (Work in Progress)
I’ve been put in charge of getting our growing library at work organized. I used librarything.com to catalog the books, one ISBN at a time. Originally I was going to use the Dewey Decimal system for sorting, but I soon realized it’s not great for small libraries — especially collections that have many books on only a couple topics.
I have this slight personality problem, where I reinvent the wheel whenever possible.
So now I have a new library system, loosely based on Melvil Dewey’s. It’s the Farmy Decimal system.
000 Spirituality etc. 00 General Spirituality 10 Philosophy 20 Religion 30 Energy 40 Plants 100 Agriculture 00 theory & science 0 schools of thought .0 biodynamics .1 permaculture .2 agroecology 3 botany & plant science .0 diseases & pests 4 soil science .0 minerals .1 compost .10 compost tea .11 vermiculture 10 agricultural settings 1 landscaping 2 greenhouses 3 urban/small home gardens 20 crops 1 vegetables 2 trees, vines, and shrubs .0 fruit trees .00 olives .01 apples .1 nut trees .2 vines .20 viticulture & wine .3 silviculture & forestry 3 herbs .0 medicinal .1 culinary 4 flowers 5 mushrooms .0 medicinal .1 culinary 6 animals .0 bees .1 chickens 7 grass & pasture 30 techniques 1 pruning 2 propagation .0 seeds .1 asexual 3 grafting 4 irrigation 200 Sustainable Living 10 Health 1 Alternative Medicine .0 herbs 2 Food 20 Food Preparation 30 Crafts 1 Building .0 Carpentry .1 adobe, cobb, and earth .2 strawbail 2 Tool-making 300 Issues 10 food and farm 20 environmental 400 Business & Economics 10 farm 500 History 10 Biographies 600 Literature 10 Essays 20 Poetry 30 Children's Books 700 Language 10 Spanish
I heard the iPhone has some app that scans the ISBN barcode of books
Well, that would have been helpful 3 days ago. =P