Melville Dewey can Suck My Balls!

The Universityof Illinois has one of the largest collection of books in the world - 10 million or so. So why the fuck do these idiots use the fucking Dewey Decimal System? Dewey was created as much simpler catalog system to the Library of Congress for smaller collections such as community and public school libraries. I personally think that the types of people using such libraries also had something to do with appeal of such a system.

For a college, and especially a grad student, the Library of Congress is great because after a while you know exactly where to browse. For the past 10 years, if I wanted an opera score, I head directly to M1500 without having to go to a catalog. If I want the piano vocal score of the same opera, I go to M1520. I don't want to comb through an entire floor of 780 as I would under Dewey. Where's the fucking logic in that?

Library of Congress is perfect for large specialized collection that we have here. In a music library, every fucking book is going to be in the mid 700's. I just don't get it! Is this a territorial thing? Is this just another element of the Midwest giving the finger to the elitist East Coast? Are these people that insecure? It just doesn't make sense and it's going to drive me nuts for the next two years.