Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Lonely but informative Dewey Decimal class

Apparently there are not a lot of home-schoolers out there interested in getting to know the Dewey Decimal System. At the second of three free classes on library skills for home-schoolers at the Elsie ...
Las Vegas Sun

Dewey Decimal System still most common, but some libraries using updated classification

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 ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Gwinnett libraries shelve Dewey Decimal system in favor of bookstore model

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 ...
Napa Valley Register

From the Librarian’s Desk: Decoding Dewey

Did you know that Dec. 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day? Me neither. Born on Dec. 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey is the librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. And in an age ...
insider.si.edu

Dewey decimal classification and relative index

First published anonymously in 1876 under title: A classification and subject index. 2d-14th editions published under title: Decimal classification and relativ index ...
Nature

The Decimal Classification of Melvil Dewey and its Extension by the Brussels Institute of Bibliography

THE study of classification is a necessary preliminary to the preparation of a comprehensive guide to recorded information. Of the multifarious systems that have been suggested for the classification ...