Correction: On the cover of last week’s paper, Sofia Webster and Matty O’Conner were mistakenly referred to as sisters, and Sofia’s last name was given to ...

Sherry Preston: Are you curious about the Dewey Decimal system? The Dewey Decimal system was designed to organize library books by putting a number on the book spine. Sherry Preston is the public ...

It is the 174th birthday of Melvil Dewey, the man who created the Dewey Decimal System, and was responsible more than any other person for the creation and promotion of the field of Library Science in ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever wandered through a library and wondered why history is over here, while cooking lives comfortably over there, you have Melvil Dewey to thank. He’s the 19th-century librarian who looked ...

Melvil Dewey made huge contributions to the library world during his life. In 1876, while he was a student at Amhurst, Dewey started a library product and furniture business called the Library Bureau.

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 ...

Terrorist outrages committed on Valentine's Day and a superflu epidemic have devastated New York City, whose population is now about 800,000, in film music composer Larson's less than stellar debut, ...

OCLC, a Dublin-based nonprofit that partners with thousands of libraries around the world, is laying off about 80 workers in central Ohio amid uncertain federal funding and a shifting artificial ...

The most widely recognised classification of ultra-processed food (UPF) is the Nova classification system, developed in 2009 by Carlos Monteiro in Brazil. It’s Monteiro’s definition that has been ...

Schools have gone through quite a revolution over the years, particularly in the past couple of decades as computers have become more and more prevalent. If you stepped into a classroom from 30 years ...