Something About the Dewey Decimal System

What’s the Point?

Some people are celebrating the Dewy Decimal System today, while others are likely trying to understand how it’s relevant. Do we not, so to speak. Our site's co-founder, Jon S., works in a library and immediately noticed A Genealogist in Providence was cataloged with 999.99 (as described in The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder) and questioned it years ago:

According to the Dewey decimal classification schedule this numbering is reserved for extraterrestrial worlds. Since when is Providence or genealogy deemed extraterrestrial?

Brad Strickland revealed this to be a joke:

"Providence, Rhode Island, is the home town of H. P. Lovecraft. I was thinking that a genealogist would happen across evidence of alien life forms intermarrying with humans.”

10 out 10, Brad!