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crl-11658	Dix, William S.	Of the Arrangement of Books	1964-03-01	6	.pdf	application/pdf	3978	169	67	books in abundance ready to your hand; you might have imagined you~self among the shelves of some grammanan, or the tiers of the Athenaeum, or a book- seller's towering cases. But had they been preserved, I am sure that complaints were made about the catalog engraved upqn the walls of the library at Edfu in Egypt, 2 and that the Babylonian Amid-anu, who lived some seventeen hundred years be- fore Christ and is perhaps the first li- brarian whose name is recorded, had to give ear from time to time to unhappy scholars who wanted to rearrange the clay tablets in their own-conflicting- systems.3 For it seems to be a library axiom that no arrangement of books can please all of the people all of the time.	cache/crl-11658.pdf	txt/crl-11658.txt