Everything Is Miscellaneous

English language

Published May 1, 2007

ISBN:: 978-0-8050-8043-8

(1 review)

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder is a book by David Weinberger published in 2007 (ISBN 0805080430). The book's central premise is that there is no universally acceptable way of classifying information. Starting with the story of the Dewey Decimal Classification, Weinberger demonstrates that all attempts to classify inherently reflect the biases of the person defining the classification system.

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coral reviewed Everything Is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger

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5 stars

When I started this book, I found I kind of liked it. I read some more and started liking it more. By the end, I was a semi-rabid fan, going around suggesting to everyone that they ought to read it. Weinberger's style is fairly informal, down-to-earth, and entertaining, but not squishy enough to decrease his credibility--I found my views on organization changed as I read through this book, and it only increased my desire to go into metadata librarianship (cataloguing for men).

Great, great book. The only book I'm going to finish this semester (and if you've seen my reading list, that's saying a lot).