L4 library needs Dewey Number field for sorting

I've used Logos for years--having gone from Scholar's to Silver to Gold to Platinum; plus I have bought additional books. So I have a nice library. The problem is keeping track of everything. Sure there are a number of ways to sort and seach the library (title, auhor, etc), but Logos always seemed to me to be missing something. Finally, while in the public library the other day, it struck me. Logos needs to add a sort field to the library--one with Dewey Decimal System numbers. Since Logos provides a real library, why don't they provide a way to organize it like a real one?

I prefer Dewey over Library of Congress cataloging, because Dewey's organization on the shelf is more natural and logically organized. Also, if you folks at Logos decide to accept this suggestion please use the 22nd edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Dewey reorganized the numbering system for Religion awhile back as relfected in the 22nd edition. This means that the Cataloging-in-Publication Data contained in many books is out of date.

Would love to hear from someone at Logos on this suggestion, and from others adding their vote for this improvement.

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spitzerpl

Logos needs to add a sort field to the library--one with Dewey Decimal System numbers.

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Simon’s Brother

I've used Logos for years--having gone from Scholar's to Silver to Gold to Platinum; plus I have bought additional books. So I have a nice library. The problem is keeping track of everything. Sure there are a number of ways to sort and seach the library (title, auhor, etc), but Logos always seemed to me to be missing something. Finally, while in the public library the other day, it struck me. Logos needs to add a sort field to the library--one with Dewey Decimal System numbers. Since Logos provides a real library, why don't they provide a way to organize it like a real one?

I prefer Dewey over Library of Congress cataloging, because Dewey's organization on the shelf is more natural and logically organized. Also, if you folks at Logos decide to accept this suggestion please use the 22nd edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Dewey reorganized the numbering system for Religion awhile back as relfected in the 22nd edition. This means that the Cataloging-in-Publication Data contained in many books is out of date.

Would love to hear from someone at Logos on this suggestion, and from others adding their vote for this improvement.

I seem to remember this coming up in discussions on Logos Newsgroups on a number of occasions. Its a shame Logos didn't implement this with Logos 4 as it is a well needed addition to the resource meta-data and it should be exportable as part of a bibliography along with the resource ISBN.

You've got my vote on this. Have you added it to user voice ?

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/166675#Comment_166675

The problem of using Dewey Decimal is that it does not have enough differentiation for a collection as large as LOGOS from one specific field (i.e. Religion). I would accept Dewey Decimal - but would prefer Library of Congress. Having neither is a detriment.

When I was in seminary (too long ago) a set of Dewey Decimal extensions for the Religion topic were distributed. But these were not an official extension, the work of one seminary (not TEDS) librarian to make some sense of the large Religion library that needed to be supported by a seminary.

Bill Shewmaker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/166675#Comment_166675

I seem to remember this coming up in discussions on Logos Newsgroups on a number of occasions. Its a shame Logos didn't implement this with Logos 4 as it is a well needed addition to the resource meta-data and it should be exportable as part of a bibliography along with the resource ISBN.

I would definitely like to see the inclusion of the ISBN into some sort of classification system. My preference would be to also include the Library of Congress classification system (I haven't seen the newly expanded Dewey Decimal System, so don't know its strengths or weaknesses). To me the LoC system works better for the religion subsection.

Terry M. Moore

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/166675#Comment_166675

Andrew, I am not familiar with User Voice...

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/166681#Comment_166681

http://logos.uservoice.com/forums/42823-logos-bible-software-4

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/166683#Comment_166683

I will go for LOC as that is what I am familiar with. Since Logos is an international software, ISBN might be better or give the user the choice to choose one of the three. The third one being Dewy Decimal of course.

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/166687#Comment_166687

Both Dewey Decimal (thanks Terry) and LOC are now in User Voice.

Terry M. Moore

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/166687#Comment_166687

ISBN doesn't sort. It is just a "serial number" for a book. Dewey and LOC numbers determine where they go on a library shelf.

Terry M. Moore

I am willing to change my suggestion to a user selectable Dewey or LOC number. These are the two standard library shelving systems and I think Logos should make them available to users. The number and quickness of responses to my suggestion will hopefully communicate something to the folks at Logos.

If you want to vote for this go to http://logos.uservoice.com/forums/42823-logos-bible-software-4/suggestions/1023037-add-dewey-classification-sort-field-to-library?ref=title

Simon’s Brother

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/166692#Comment_166692

ISBN doesn't sort. It is just a "serial number" for a book. Dewey and LOC numbers determine where they go on a library shelf.

ISBN is important in terms of exporting the content of our library for import into tools like zotero, library thing etc. Agreed it wont help with classification which was your primary concern.. as usual my mind went on a lateral tangent.

I've never used LOC, only Dewey but don't really mind which one or if both were implemented.

Floyd Johnson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/166730#Comment_166730

One other idea would be for someone to automate (or semi-automate) the assigning of either Dewey Decimal or LOC numbers to the books. Most (all?) of the books in the LOGOS library have been published at some previous time and have had call numbers assigned to them. I would expect that these could be culled from some standard (Free?) source.

I do know that ISBN numbers for most in print items can be had for free from Amazon - I do not know if they also provide library call numbers. Amazon provides an API that will get this information from its database.