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- From: ajd@itl.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano)
- Subject: Re: Libra Verdi
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.162512.28651@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Usenet Owner)
- Organization: lf
- References: <1992Aug14.134512.7662@cci632.cci.com> <omuam5k@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1992Aug18.131558.20355@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:25:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.131558.20355@cco.caltech.edu> ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz) writes:
- >
- >Could be worse. I once found "the Amityville Horror" and a number of other
- >horror novels filed in a library's religion section.
-
- Some of us held a contest to find novels in the Q sections
- at the Hayden Library (MIT). The Q index is mostly for science and
- research (like the Rs are medicine and the Ts are technology and engin-
- eering). There was some might-be novels in Q1-Q1000, and three in the
- QAs -- mathematics (Flatland is the only title i remember). After that
- we got bored and distracted ourselves with something else.
-
- If i recall correctly, _the amityville horror_ was allegedly a true story,
- so it would be catalogued in the B section, somewhere amongst the Crowley
- and von daneiken. Although nobody really believed _the amityville horror_
- was true, trying to get a book re-classified is next to impossible.
-
- AjD
- worked at the hayden library for a year
-