To find a favorite book in Elgin’s Rakow Branch library, 6-year-old Rina Teglia marched straight to the “Ready to Read” section and picked out “Bathtime for Biscuit.” While she was at it, a nearby ...

KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (WANE) – For 140 years people have been using the Dewey Decimal System to find books at a library. It’s a classification method that assigns a group of numbers to books and their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Celebrate the birthday of Melville Dewey on #NationalDeweyDecimalSytemDay. Source: Pixabay The inventor of the Dewey Decimal System of library classification, Melville Dewey, was born on 10 December ...

THORNTON — Clunky. Out of touch. Ready for the dustbin. Plenty would say that about General Motors or other American icons badly in need of retooling. But officials at the Rangeview Library District ...

A librarian who identifies as queer wrestles with our tendency to classify both books and people. By Jess deCourcy Hinds As a librarian who has dated both men and women, I couldn’t help but think of ...

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 ...