The Dewey Decimal system was first developed in the United States and organises library books by discipline or field of study, with numbered classes such as 300: Social Sciences and 900: History ...

A Wellington Library is trialling a new way of cataloguing its mātauranga Māori books, organising them by atua (deity) rather than by the Dewey Decimal system. The trial shelves can be found on the ...

Dewey, currently on its 23rd edition, classifies to an astounding level of depth: 27,000 categories in all. Some public libraries, however, feel it’s time for a change. The main complaint leveled ...

The Dewey Decimal System, created by Melvil Dewey in 1876, is a numerical method primarily used in public libraries. It organizes materials into 10 main classes, which are further divided into ...