[WikiEN-l] Re: Categories and NPOV: Libraries?

[Sam Korn]

> Anyway, it seems to me that librarians must deal with this sort of thing all
> the time. And the many public libraries that use the Dewey Decimal system
> can't just fall back on the Library of Congress. Although perhaps there's
> some central authority that recommends Dewey classifications. But in any
> case, someone has to decide whether Velikovsky is science or science fiction.
> Who does? and how?

Quite often, this will be done by the publisher (certainly in my
experience with school libraries), who will put a Dewey number on the
copyrights page.  Not exactly neutral, but that's the way it seems to
be done as far as I can tell.

Sam