Books In Library, Quite Contrary How Does Your Dewey Decimal System Grow? Poem by Joe Rosochacki

(This the 500th observation I wrote. How befitting to write words that are concerning words.)

Searching through card catalogs,
From everything from chemistry, history, anthropology,
Even how to build house from Lincoln Logs,
Aisles beyond aisles of books and late books fees.
These buildings, housing knowledge of ages, are threatened by technology.
Fumbling through the card catalog, alphabetically arranged,
Writing down the Dewey Decimal number,
- in order for you to get the book that may contain the answer to your question,
Searching for the book with unusual actions, such as,
Looking at the spine of the book with your head facing perpendicular to the title,
-as you read the numbers
And correspond the title that you wrote down as far as you can remember.
Now you can, on search engine, search whatever topic you may embrace,
Gone, soon to be, bibliographies, Ibids, and Op. Cits, from term papers,
Without a trace.
Cyberagraphies is what is coming on line,
-no more Dewey Decimal Point System for sure.
The Library of Congress is now accepting copyright materials on line.
I had sent my Hellenic Suite, for classic guitar solo,
-via internet to the Library of Congress,
Including cover page, forward, notation, appendix, and a live performance of the suite,
By Thanassis Georgiadis.
No printed material was sent in.
From the point where it most likely began.
From papyrus scrolls in the Library of Alexandria,
(That were destroyed)
To a number of famous libraries throughout the world, *
From the Library of Congress to the Vatican,
They are about to go the way of the horse and buggy.
The libraries will be used to take a trip down memory lane.
Technology is to blame, the binary system,
-(for the death of the Dewey Decimal Point System)
-its memorizing omnipresence yet to be totally unfurled.
There is a Church of Google, **
-its members claim that Google is closest thing to God that we have on earth.
I have a problem with that, because humans created the internet,
Was Bing, born of a virgin birth?
Therefore humans begot God, what came first the chicken or the egg?
I will go to the Commerce, Texas, Library or the Texas A&M-Commerce Library,
And look it up on their computers.

9-21-10

http: //www.technologyreview.com/web/14436/
http: //www.lisnews.org/world_without_public_libraries
http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification
http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
*http: //www.thegentlemanscholar.com/Famous_Libraries.html
**http: //www.thechurchofgoogle.org/