[Melvil]
Dewey was struck by "the waste of time and money in the constant
recataloging and reclassifying made necessary by the almost universally
used system where a book was numbered according to the particular
room, tier and shelf where it chanced to stand on that day, instead of
by the class to which it belonged."
-- Dee Garrison Apostles of Cultures: The Public
Librarian and American Society 1876-1920 1979: 114. quoted in
Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the
Digital Age by David M. Levy, 2001: p125.