MDS Dewey/Melvile mismatch mixup

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MDS Dewey/Melvile mismatch mixup

1CtrSacredSciences
Sep 24, 2021, 1:00 pm

I've noticed this a time or two before, but caught this one to report:

The creative process : a symposium by Brewster Ghiselin my copy had:

155.333
Philosophy and Psychology > Psychology > Developmental And Differential Psychology > Sexuality and Gender > Masculinity, Femininity, and Other Gender Orientations > Femininity
14 copies

which I changed to

153.35
Philosophy and Psychology > Psychology > Cognition And Memory > Creativity And Visualization > Creativity

those are copied from the work detail page:
https://www.librarything.com/work/379216/workdetails/176713157

On the MDS Chart the wording for 153.35 is the same, but the words for 155.333 is lacking most of the words and different from above.

https://www.librarything.com/mds/153.35

https://www.librarything.com/mds/153.333
MDS153.333
Wording: Philosophy and PsychologyPsychologyCognition And MemoryCreativity And VisualizationNot setNot set

that's a bit weird.

The weirder bit to me is after editing and refreshing the side bar has the new wording:

Genres
Nonfiction
Art & Design
Science & Nature
Melvil Decimal System (DDC)
153.35 — Philosophy and Psychology › Psychology › Cognition And Memory › Creativity And Visualization › Creativity

But in my catalog the old words are attached to the edited number
Dewey/Melvil Wording
155.35
Philosophy and Psychology > Psychology > Developmental And Differential Psychology > Sexuality and Gender

https://www.librarything.com/catalog/CtrSacredSciences&deepsearch=Brewster+G...

typically after refreshing the page the words match the new number immediately.

2kristilabrie
Sep 27, 2021, 10:01 am

Not a bug. You were looking at 153.333, not 155.333, which is showing the wording as expected: https://www.librarything.com/mds/155.333.

Your book is showing a Dewey number of 155.35, which matches the wording for that classification. I would double check your field and make sure it's showing what you want/edit it to what you need! Let me know if I've missed anything here.

3CtrSacredSciences
Modifié : Sep 27, 2021, 11:33 pm

>2 kristilabrie: I think I need new glasses. Sorry for the bother.