The council of the American Library Association is removing its founder, Melvil Dewey, from its creative leadership medal. Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System for organizing library books, has ...

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Melvil Dewey was an organizational genius. His brainchild, the Dewey Decimal System, revolutionized how libraries catalog and sort their books and periodicals. Before he proposed putting publications ...

For "almost-librarian" Laura Raphael, it means chaos … and a promise to herself to learn the Dewey decimal system backward and forward, without the computer's help. Raphael, an associate librarian in ...

Did you know that Dec. 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day? Me neither. Born on Dec. 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey is the librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. And in an age ...

Most of us have our fair share of digital debris. After all, with drives measured in one-million-million byte increments it’s tempting to never delete anything. The downside is you may never be able ...

On December 10, 1851 Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was born. Just in case you’re unfamiliar with this name, Dewey gave us the Dewey Decimal System that many libraries still use today to organize their ...

The Gwinnett County Public Libraries will be closed through Wednesday due to a major book reclassification that will replace the 144-year-old Dewey Decimal Classification system with more ...

Back in 1876, a guy named Melvil Dewey came up with a way of organizing books in a library, and ever since, every fifth-grader in America has gotten the same dull lecture on how the Dewey Decimal ...

On Sunday, the American Library Association (ALA) voted to remove the name of one of its founders, Melvil Dewey, from the highest honor given to library professionals. Nearly 90 years after Dewey's ...

When the Perry Branch Library decided to stop using the Dewey Decimal System to organize its books, library officials saw the move as a way to make their stacks more user-friendly. But some skeptics ...