To learn more about the Dewey Decimal System, check out “The Dewey Decimal System” (Children’s Press, $6.95, ages 7-11) by Allan Fowler: (Classification-Dewey decimal).

A book classification system ... Melvil Dewey in the 1870s and copyrighted in 1876. Used to this day in thousands of libraries worldwide, mostly for non-fiction content, the Dewey Decimal ...

Score one for the library’s bookstore-style layout. And shed a tiny tear for the Dewey Decimal Classification system, long the standard in the industry. A handful of pioneering suburban ...

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 ...

As Smithsonian reported: All of the libraries that Porter consulted for guidance relied on the Dewey Decimal Classification. “Now in [that] system, they had one number—326—that meant slavery ...

While Mulé said a new classification system could work for a school library, which have small collections, he said abandoning the Dewey Decimal System would not work for most public libraries.