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 ...

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 ...

Deer Park Library director Rebecca Pool decided in September to make one of the most dramatic changes in the facility’s 53-year history. The library ditched the Dewey Decimal System. The new approach ...

When the Perry Branch Library decided to stop using the Dewey Decimal System to organize its books, library officials saw the move as a way to make their stacks more user-friendly. But some skeptics ...

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 ...

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 ...

You’ve probably heard of Melvil Dewey, because most American libraries use the Dewey Decimal System to catalog nonfiction books. Dewey was born in Adams Center, New York, and most of his impact on the ...