I have a soon-to-get-serious contest with some friends to see who can eat the most animals in one calendar day. The question - what constitutes an animal? [more inside]
posted by jimmythefish on Jan 14, 2009 - 32 answers

Hey Librarians! Why is there a trailing zero on this Dewey number? [more inside]
posted by saguaro on Dec 20, 2008 - 8 answers

Looking for artists, writers or blogs who work on lists of things. [more inside]
posted by OutlawedYeomen on Sep 25, 2008 - 13 answers

Psychology: is there a term for someone who can't define himself -- who has a hard time saying "I'm an X person" or "I'm a Y person"? [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Nov 5, 2007 - 40 answers

I need to organize thousands of serials/periodicals which have been stored in boxes for the past 10 years, into a coherent, accessible collection. They go back 100 years. The goal is to place them, vertically, on shelves and make them available for research. Any ideas on how to classify them? The books in the collection are organized according to Dewey Decimal. Should I attempt to assign Dewey classification numbers to each "run" of a particular journal? How would I depict the Dewey number on an individual issue? I'm stumped! Maybe I should just go alphabetical. I'm a volunteer reference librarian who doesn't know anything about cataloging but I'm willing to learn to help this project. Thanks.
posted by Tullyogallaghan on Oct 7, 2007 - 7 answers

I'm thinking about offering a small man-with-a-van -type moving service for a few moves in the short-term. I have a couple of feasibility/legalish questions about transport rules and liability. [more inside]
posted by glibhamdreck on Sep 5, 2007 - 4 answers

If a mermaid were to have a scientific classification, how would I go about building the name so that it sounds half believable? [more inside]
posted by FunkyHelix on Dec 27, 2006 - 24 answers

Ontology Filter: Give me a name for a category of things that I'm using in a system. [more inside]
posted by Deathalicious on Nov 12, 2006 - 15 answers

How do you know when there's a manatee in your bed? [more inside]
posted by marxfriedrice on Aug 9, 2006 - 16 answers

What systems for organizing knowledge (other than the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress) exist? [more inside]
posted by richard m on Feb 20, 2006 - 20 answers

How can one (easily?) identify a location based upon a single image? [more inside]
posted by Chunder on Feb 18, 2005 - 8 answers

Tag-based indexing for local files? [more inside]
posted by monju_bosatsu on Sep 14, 2004 - 11 answers