cheers, Opposer.

Olive Riley,aged 108, who lives in an aged care hostel at Woy Woy,50 miles north of Sydney, Australia, is probably the oldest of the world’s 108 million bloggers and its oldest YouTuber.

She celebrated her 108th birthday on October 20.

She was born in Broken Hill in 1899, when Sydney was the capital of the British colony of New South Wales, ruled from London by an aged Queen Victoria.

Physically frail but mentally alert, Olive raised her three children on her own, survived two world wars , the Great Depression of the 1930s, and worked as a barmaid, an egg sorter, and a station (ranch) cook.

Olive’s blog, The Life of Riley, http://www.allaboutolive.com.au has a huge Internet following. Prepared by her helper, international film maker Mike Rubbo, and based on his interviews with Olive, it attracts hundreds of enthusiastic comments from many countries, and from bloggers of all ages.

The London (UK) newspaper The Sun has just published a story about Olive: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/article548314.ece

Best wishes, Eric.

I can see where one might get offended being compared to an object, and it certainly comes across sexist. But honestly, I doubt the ad company put as much thought into this as the librarians seem to be.

Whether Dewey or LC is better is another question (one not addressed here). UIUC is one of the few major academic libraries left that still classifies by Dewey (10 million plus volumes) and I just heard both a cataloger and a shelving supervisor complain about it the other day. It is too cumbersome. I haven’t used LC since the early 80’s…it may be better.