> I'll point out that indexing is not an ancient practice.
I'll politely point you to St Isidore of Seville (early 7th century AD). They aren't proposing him as patron saint of the Internet for nothing, y'know.
> I still doubt that there are a lot of modern library issues -- there
> will not be enough items for an elaborate classifications system.
That may be so, but we know that each LhM Librarian invents (and partially implements) his own idiosyncratic classification system. We have no idea of whether there are too many items for a single classification system to cover them all, nor indeed of what any of these systems look like. But the *idea* is too good to lose, IMHO.
> You can have most of the same fun without bringing Melvil Dewey to
> Glorantha.
The point is that no consistent classification system has ever been inflicted on the whole of any Lhankor Mhy library. *Not* that all LhM libraries share an efficient classification system.
Cheers, Nick
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