I am a nerd for classification schemes and standards. I’m a librarian and I have catalogued books, CDs, movies, even board games, using a variety of different classification schemes. Yesterday while reading an old issue of Library Journal I learned about a new one: BISAC. BISAC is an acronym for Book Industry Standards and Communications. Its purpose is to provide guidance and lay out a set of subject headings for bookstores (ie True Crime, Architecture, Comics & Graphic Novels, etc) to allow for a certain level of standardization in terms of bookstore layout and operation. According to the Book Industry Standards Group (which I also just discovered the existence of…I learn something new every day, it seems) “The Headings can be used for transmitting information