EDIT do the down voters wish to explain themselves?
Its hilarious that the most succinct and useful summary gets flagged and hidden. Thats the smoothness of HN some times.
To the poster below: The knowledge and system of connections inside that knowledge, is traditional, and that tradition is carried forward into modern domain. Does that make sense?
You should examine why you feel so quick to dismiss something as nonsense, especially when it seems to have been implemented successfully to the benefit of its users who do understand the system.
You seem to be imagining something (the burning of libraries as the entire nation is forced to throw out Dewey?) that has no basis in reality.
You clearly don’t understand what’s been implemented here, or library science in general, as your assertions are nonsense.
People arent threatend by this specific activity, less so the nonsense behind it. The threat is the corruption of useful and working systems to virtue signal for no benefit, whilst espousing their apparent (but on close examination lack of benefits). It is the social and intellectual degredation which is alarming.
Creating a custom filing system is busy work simply put, changing to a propritory system lowers discoverability of information to an overwhelming majority of people initmately unfamiliar with "Maori gods" (99.9%), the same activity could be accomplished under standard tooling (Dewey), at lower cost, greater compatability and therefore benefit. It would be discoverable by default.
Is it really tiny and temporary, then?
You can't be serious. Commenting on anything is a basic human right.
Edit, since apparently that was confusing: it’s an idiom which implies not that you lack the legal right to comment, but that you’re being an asshole by commenting in this manner.
It gives rise to the utter nonsense exemplified in this Article, which is pure virtue signalling.
I am a New Zealander, I have been lucky enough to spend a huge amount of time working overseas (in many different countries, settings and regions) as well as having attended foreign and (domestic NZ) universities. I have seen it all. Screeching about “booing and hissing” says more about you than the person you are replying to. Put up a coherent response rather than saying because someone isn't in a tiny community they cant have an opinion. That is just braindead behaviour.
This is a tiny and temporary library in Wellington set up while the main library gets upgraded to deal with the city’s risk of earthquakes
It’s about the size of a house, with only ~20,000 books.
What gives you the right to boo and hiss at something across the world to you? In a culture you’re unfamiliar with. This is a tiny, community focused library, modifying a single section’s ordering and labelling of books.
Why does that offend you?