In 1876 Melvil Dewey designed a numerical classification system for organizing books by subject; it has stood the test of time. The innovative librarian chopped the world’s knowledge into 10 ...

The social bookmarking Website Delicious connected me with Bonnie, but I ought to have been able to search the Web using a “Dewey Decimal number” for “SketchUp book author kids.” ...

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 ...

And while the Dewey Decimal System provides a precise way to order, locate and re-shelve books, it allows for little flexibility in how the stacks are arranged, and patrons simply won't check out ...

Myron found Dewey in the library's book drop on a cold January morning in 1988. ... Dewey, named after the Dewey Decimal System, used in most libraries to catalog books, ...

The library Dewey Decimal system groups books into 10 categories numbered 000 through 900, then divides even further within each subject to reach higher levels of specificity. Dewey, currently on its ...

We start to see some books haven’t been checked out since the 1980s. It’s time to pull them,” Oberg said, adding the district would keep timeless series and other books and archive others. But ...

Mr. Melvil Dewey, the Director of the State Library, probably represents the best conclusions as to the reading public that have been arrived at in this country from experience in library management.