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Chiara Ogan on Personal Libraries
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Chiara Ogan is a former UX designer and information architect. She recently left that career to become a mental health therapist. Chiara’s background is in library science, and in this conversation, we discuss how she organizes her personal book collection — which she just did in preparation for this major life change.
Show notes
- Chiara Ogan
- Chiara (Berlingo Fox) Ogan - LinkedIn
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-scale Web Sites by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
- Billy bookcases
- Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
- Dewey Decimal Classification - Wikipedia
- S. R. Ranganathan - Wikipedia
- Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
Show notes include Amazon affiliate links. We get a small commission for purchases made through these links.
If you're enjoying the show, please rate or review us in Apple's podcast directory:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-informed-life/id1450117117?itsct=podcast_box&itscg=30200
Chapters
1. Chiara Ogan on Personal Libraries (00:00:00)
2. About Chiara (00:01:21)
3. The need behind the ask (00:02:27)
4. A true home library (00:08:22)
5. Book organization, step one (00:12:19)
6. The Dewey Decimal Classification system (00:17:42)
7. Pre- and post-coordinate systems (00:22:13)
8. Library classification taxonomy (00:25:22)
9. Mapping physical to conceptual space (00:30:10)
10. Put books where they're useful (00:33:04)
11. Chiara's recommedations (00:38:17)
12. Closing (00:41:08)
147 episodes
Manage episode 375405683 series 2485252
Chiara Ogan is a former UX designer and information architect. She recently left that career to become a mental health therapist. Chiara’s background is in library science, and in this conversation, we discuss how she organizes her personal book collection — which she just did in preparation for this major life change.
Show notes
- Chiara Ogan
- Chiara (Berlingo Fox) Ogan - LinkedIn
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-scale Web Sites by Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
- Billy bookcases
- Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
- Dewey Decimal Classification - Wikipedia
- S. R. Ranganathan - Wikipedia
- Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
Show notes include Amazon affiliate links. We get a small commission for purchases made through these links.
If you're enjoying the show, please rate or review us in Apple's podcast directory:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-informed-life/id1450117117?itsct=podcast_box&itscg=30200
Chapters
1. Chiara Ogan on Personal Libraries (00:00:00)
2. About Chiara (00:01:21)
3. The need behind the ask (00:02:27)
4. A true home library (00:08:22)
5. Book organization, step one (00:12:19)
6. The Dewey Decimal Classification system (00:17:42)
7. Pre- and post-coordinate systems (00:22:13)
8. Library classification taxonomy (00:25:22)
9. Mapping physical to conceptual space (00:30:10)
10. Put books where they're useful (00:33:04)
11. Chiara's recommedations (00:38:17)
12. Closing (00:41:08)
147 episodes
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