The small research institute that a work at uses a remarkably simple system. Books are assigned a serial number based on when they hit the shelves, and are filed simply in order of this serial number. Filing in easy. Finding is easy. A very simple data base... probably even a text file with appropiate keywords or tags could be searched with something like grep to retrieve the serial number. A disadvantage is that similar books will not be grouped together (at least on the shelves) and you will lose some of the pleasure of browsing your collection.
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lol! first Jesus Christ and now G.I. Joe.... Those darned Europeans.
The small research institute that a work at uses a remarkably simple system. Books are assigned a serial number based on when they hit the shelves, and are filed simply in order of this serial number. Filing in easy. Finding is easy. A very simple data base... probably even a text file with appropiate keywords or tags could be searched with something like grep to retrieve the serial number. A disadvantage is that similar books will not be grouped together (at least on the shelves) and you will lose some of the pleasure of browsing your collection.