Monarch High librarian Beatrice Gerrish wanted to organize her books using a bookstore model. But she couldn’t find a classification system she liked for a school library, so she decided to create her ...

LONGMONT — Red Hawk Elementary School’s library really is one of a kind. The St. Vrain Valley School District has secured a copyright on the classification system that the Erie school’s library ...

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 ...

For more than a century, the Dewey Decimal Classification system has dictated the way libraries organize their collections. And the way they organize and sort information says a lot about what kind of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Tribal Librarian Anne Heidemann and Chippewa Tribe member Melissa Isaac speak about Maawn ...

The Dewey decimal classification has long been the standard of organizing library collections around the world, but a First Nations tribal council in B.C.'s Central Interior says it will ditch the ...

To many bookworms, the organisation of books in a library might seem like a trivial fact of little to no consequence. But in the small East Arnhem Land community of Galiwin'ku, the re-organisation of ...

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 the ...