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 ...

A couple of public library systems in Arizona have drawn attention for scrapping the Dewey Decimal System A couple of public library systems in Arizona have drawn attention for scrapping the Dewey ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GREENWOOD, Ind. (WTHR) - Unless you know sports book are listed at 796 in the Dewey Decimal System, and cookbooks are somewhere in the 641 range, you might get lost in the non-fiction section of your ...

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 ...

KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A northeastern Indiana library is jettisoning the Dewey Decimal System in favor of an easier method for finding books. The Kendallville Public Library's staff says a simple ...

What happens when the library’s computer catalog system breaks down? For “almost-librarian” Laura Raphael, it means chaos — and a promise to herself to learn the Dewey decimal system backward and ...

Melville Dewey was the founder of the internationally renowned Lake Placid Club, a portion of which is pictured here, date unknown. Enterprise file photo LAKE PLACID — The name of Melville Dewey, ...