Dewey didn't do Geography

Series

There's been quite a bit of chatter about the "de-dewification" of the library, if that's the way to write it. Of course that all started way back, when people pulled their fiction out of the 800's and sorted it by author, but the trickle seems to be turning into a flow.

Graphic book Section

While I was on the Singapore Study Visit, Ngee Ann Poly was one of the many libraries who have moved towards a bookstore concept for their lifestyle books.  Library Grits wrote about the topic this week, referring to the AASL13. Where I work, in Secondary, we've pulled out Biography, Playscripts, Graphic Books, and Poetry.   In primary, we've got boxes for series and have pulled out Graphic Books.When I did my Libguide for Development Economics, and we wanted to link the physical to the virtual, we were pulling books out of various sub-classifications and putting them together (in DDC order in the Economics section, but not in Economics order - if that makes sense!).  That was reasonably manageable and not to way out.

The Princess Book Section

But then last week I started work on the Geography Libguide.  Boy o boy, Dewey didn't do Geography.  Or at least not in any form that a modern geographer or geography student would recognise it these days.  A complete aside, but Ms. Katie was then telling me why Geography is not such a big deal at American universities as it could be, or is in the rest of the world.  So, what did Dewey allow us?

910 Geography & travel 
911 Historical geography
912 Graphic representations of earth, atlases
913 Ancient world
914 Europe 
915 Asia 
916 Africa
917 North America 

918 South America
919 Other areas

And what do we need?  - This is a little topic list from our school's IB syllabus:

People on the move: Migration

Global Climate change: causes and consequences

Demography

Resource consumption and the environment: Making a difference

The big Blue: Ocean morphology and Climate Connections

Where land meets sea: coast

Resources and marine ecosystems

Urban Environments

The Melaka fieldtrip unit

IBiodiversity and tropical ecosystems

Soil resource management

Water on tap: water resource management

Development Disparities: Measuring the differences, disparities within communities and responses

Life on the edge: Hazard perception and vulnerability

Global Interactions: Globalization

So it looks like we're going to have to work with a separate shelf plus some kind of sticker identification on the spine of the books.

Anyone else there struggling with Geography?