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 ...

KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (WANE) – For 140 years people have been using the Dewey Decimal System to find books at a library. It’s a classification method that assigns a group of numbers to books and 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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Dewey ...

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A radical makeover at Gwinnett County libraries should make it a lot easier to find and check out books, administrators say. This week, the county is getting rid of the age-old ...

KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — The Kendallville Public Library is jettisoning the Dewey Decimal System in favor of an easier method for finding books. The library’s staff says a simple system that ...

Melvil Dewey was rebuked by the New York state Board of Regents and resigned as state librarian over complaints from Jewish leaders about his anti-Semitism. (JTA) — Seems like the creator of the Dewey ...

Dec. 14—While different literature providers use various informational systems, the Tahlequah Public Library has relied on the Dewey Decimal Classification for many years. TPL Branch Manager Jeremy ...

Deer Park Library director Rebecca Pool decided in September to make one of the most dramatic changes in the facility’s 53-year history. The library ditched the Dewey Decimal System. The new approach ...

You’ve probably heard of Melvil Dewey, because most American libraries use the Dewey Decimal System to catalog nonfiction books. Dewey was born in Adams Center, New York, and most of his impact on the ...