Bob and I made sense of my library today. The resulting top level categories:

• Chicago & the Midwest
• New York & the East
• California & the West
• France & the French
• Consumer society
• Environmental policy & law
• Art & architecture criticism
• City building techniques
• Observing global cities
• Creative works
• Transportation
• U.S. society and governance
• Gender
• Philosophy & politics
• Folio
• Other

I’m mightily pleased with the results. “Other” has all of three non-reference titles. And thanks to Bob for not forcing LOC classification on me, which would have resulted in a very nasty HT (planning) vs. NA (architecture) split.