The Massachusetts student let his mind wander during a Sunday sermon and created the decimal-based system that greatly ...

Seven-year-old Springville resident Kiara Hamada looks through books at the Springville Library on Wednesday. The library is experimenting with a new way of organizing books and moving away from the ...

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 ...

A couple of public library systems in Arizona have drawn attention for scrapping the Dewey Decimal System A couple of public library systems in Arizona have drawn attention for scrapping the Dewey ...

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 ...

ALBANY — A century after Melvil Dewey called Albany and the State Library home, the city's newest public libraries are poised to abandon his famous decimals. The shift starts next month at the ...

Back in 1876, a guy named Melvil Dewey came up with a way of organizing books in a library, and ever since, every fifth-grader in America has gotten the same dull lecture on how the Dewey Decimal ...