I think there's a certain mindset - some librarians have it, I have it, my friend Derek has it - where you can handle labelling and filing to your heat's content (and it isn't often - it likes everything *perfectly* catagorized) but where you can also see past those labels and realize they are not there to restrict your choices, just to help you organize everything.
Two different uses of labels, really - one to organize, the other to restrict.
I can remember the guys at the local Strawberries store loved when Derek came in the store - while we would talk with them, Derek would just start going through the shelves, putting everything into that most-difficult of ordering systems (alphabetical; which seems beyond the grasp of most consumers.) He just couldn't help himself.
I have my own library - currently, only a portion of which (DVDs and CDs) are shelved - organized very specifically. Once we build the library itself, the books will also be organized and filed, and, if I can find a labelling system I like, labelled.
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Date: 2006-04-30 01:48 pm (UTC)Two different uses of labels, really - one to organize, the other to restrict.
I can remember the guys at the local Strawberries store loved when Derek came in the store - while we would talk with them, Derek would just start going through the shelves, putting everything into that most-difficult of ordering systems (alphabetical; which seems beyond the grasp of most consumers.) He just couldn't help himself.
I have my own library - currently, only a portion of which (DVDs and CDs) are shelved - organized very specifically. Once we build the library itself, the books will also be organized and filed, and, if I can find a labelling system I like, labelled.