Chiara Ogan on Personal Libraries

The Informed Life

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

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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)