Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was born on December 10, 1851. Among other things, Dewey was a self-proclaimed reformer, so when working for the Amherst College library in ...

This is of course a play on words for the Dewey Decimal system. Dewey is one of a variety of information organization systems used by libraries to sort the books on their shelves. It’s based on ...

who developed the library classification known as the Dewey Decimal System and for whom John Dewey is often mistaken. As for John Dewey, Gonzalez said, "very few people recognize the legacy he left." ...

Is the Dewey Decimal system dying out in public libraries? The Dewey Decimal Classification system has been used in U.S. libraries since the 1870s when Melvil Dewey developed it and put his name on it ...

Score one for the library’s bookstore-style layout. And shed a tiny tear for the Dewey Decimal Classification system, long the standard in the industry. A handful of pioneering suburban ...

I would argue that the education system resembles the vision of modern testing pioneers like Edward Thorndike more than Dewey’s. But the testing proponents seem to be winning. According to a ...

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