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 ...

A book classification system for libraries that was created by Melvil Dewey in the 1870s and copyrighted in 1876. Used to this day in thousands of libraries worldwide, mostly for non-fiction content, ...

Public libraries have long utilized the Dewey Decimal classification system which uses 10 broad categories and breaks them down into subtopics. Many have grown up learning Dewey Decimal in schools and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Melissa Ubernosky is one of millions of Americans this month who are commemorating developmental disability awareness. Ubernosky, who's 35, is four months shy of 14 years working at George Memorial ...

The governing body of the American Library Assn. voted to remove the name of Melvil Dewey, the creator of the Dewey Decimal System, from one of its annual awards. The ALA council made the decision on ...

With search engines acting as such a necessary tool for internet use in 2009, we sometimes must remind ourselves that they did not come pre-packaged with cyberspace. The 1997 book Predicting the ...

“Traveler,” which debuts at 10 p.m. Thursday, follows two men who are framed for blowing up a New York museum after they are seen fleeing the scene on Rollerblades. What they actually were doing, ...