Dewey Decimal System Day today marks the birthday of librarian Melvil Dewey and celebrates the library classification system ...

Melvil Dewey is the 19th century librarian who looked at the chaotic state of library shelves and said, essentially, “Absolutely not.” ...

ERIE — The newest elementary school in the St. Vrain Valley School District is scrapping the time-honored Dewey Decimal System and opting for a more user-friendly model for organizing books. Red Hawk ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...