Part 2 Shrine Maiden Apprentice
Main Decimal Classification
"Fran, go to the workshop and bring the three gray-robed priests and the attendants other than Wilma."
"What are you going to do, Master Maine?"
"I will stay in the library and read the catalog that the Head Priest lent me, and then think about how to sort the files."
Entering the library, Fran first picked up the files at the door and cleared the way for me. He put down the catalogue and hurried out of the library after I had sat down.
After seeing Fran go, I looked at the catalogue of the Head Priest. It was filled with tiny words, scrawled in such a way as to say to the others, "as long as the Head Priest himself can understand it."
"What books did the Head Priest bring into the temple... wow, so many?!"
The number of books brought into the temple by the Head Priest was considerable, so to speak, the personal belongings of him occupied more than one bookshelf in the library.
... Head Priest, who were you?!
The only certainty was that he was unbelievably rich. I had heard him say that he entered the temple for some reason, but it seemed that he came from a wealthy upper-class family. How else could he bring into the temple five books that were very valuable?
Usually, books with leather covers and gold and precious stones were not personal but were considered heirlooms. However, the fact that the Head Priest brought five books into the temple for all to read increased my opinion of him.
"It's really nice to bring so many books in for everyone to read..."
After I roughly assigned the classification code according to the catalog, I began to think about which bookshelf should correspond to which classification code, but then I suddenly encountered a problem.
"Which category should files about magic fall into?"
This was nerve-racking because there was no magic in the Nippon Decimal Classification. But I didn't know if it's because it was an area that only the aristocrats could explore, or an area that needed to be studied, but in the personal files of the Head Priest, magic was the most relevant.
I wrote down the Japanese classification system on the board.
0 Collection (Library, encyclopedias, general papers, journals, groups, news, series)
1 Philosophy (Philosophy, psychology, ethics, religion)
2 History (History, biography, geography)
3 Social Sciences (Politics, law, economy, statistics, society, education, customs, national defense)
4 Natural Sciences (Mathematics, science, medicine)
5 Technology (Engineering, industry, home economics)
6 Industries (Agriculture, forestry, aquaculture, commerce, transportation, communications)
7 Arts (Art, music, drama, sport, entertainment)
8 Languages
