From a New York Times article describing how the NY Public Library is finally abandoning its ancient, homegrown classificaton system in favor of the Library of Congress Classification System:
"Perhaps the most delightfully named branch of the federal bureaucracy is the Library of Congress Cataloging Directorate, which sounds oddly like an office of totalitarian librarians...."For some reason I am reminded of McSweeney's list of "Library science jargon that sounds dirty."
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