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 ...

Most of us have our fair share of digital debris. After all, with drives measured in one-million-million byte increments it’s tempting to never delete anything. The downside is you may never be able ...

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 ...

The Deschutes Public Library system is ditching the Dewey Decimal System. Walk into a bookstore and how are the books arranged? By areas of interest or subject matter. That’s what the library system ...

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 ...

Family history researchers are well aware of the Dewey Decimal System. The system started in the 1870s and is used in more than 200,000 libraries in 135 countries. Depending on the topic and author, ...

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 ...

It takes about 45 minutes on the subway to get from my childhood home in Brighton Beach to Grand Army Plaza, the site of the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. It was freshmen year at James ...

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 ...

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, ...