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 ...

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THE study of classification is a necessary preliminary to the preparation of a comprehensive guide to recorded information. Of the multifarious systems that have been suggested for the classification ...

THE fifth report of the International Committee on the Decimal Classification was presented by F. Donker Duyvis to the Tenth Conference of the Institut international de Bibliographie at the Hague on ...

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 ...

Celebrate the birthday of Melville Dewey on #NationalDeweyDecimalSytemDay. Source: Pixabay The inventor of the Dewey Decimal System of library classification, Melville Dewey, was born on 10 December ...

First published anonymously in 1876 under title: A classification and subject index. 2d-14th editions published under title: Decimal classification and relativ index ...

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Public libraries have long utilized the Dewey Decimal classification system which uses 10 broad categories and breaks them down into subtopics.