When I first read a manuscript of Grant McCracken‘s Culturematic some time back, two sentences struck me so deeply that I highlighted them and simultaneously wrote a note on the table of contents: ...

To find a favorite book in Elgin’s Rakow Branch library, 6-year-old Rina Teglia marched straight to the “Ready to Read” section and picked out “Bathtime for Biscuit.” While she was at it, a nearby ...

Can RFID banish tried-and-true library inventory methods? In a press release entitled, ‘RFID Enabled Active Shelf May Signal the Death of the Dewey Decimal System’, Baltimore company Barcoding, Inc., ...

Apparently there are not a lot of home-schoolers out there interested in getting to know the Dewey Decimal System. At the second of three free classes on library skills for home-schoolers at the Elsie ...

Long ago, our ancestors lived in caves and devised crude, rough tools to help them get through the day. One of those crude, rough tools was human language. Sure, language gave us such things as ...

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 ...

On December 10, 1851 Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was born. Just in case you’re unfamiliar with this name, Dewey gave us the Dewey Decimal System that many libraries still use today to organize their ...

Family history researchers are well aware of the Dewey Decimal System. The system started in the 1870s and is used in more than 200,000 libraries in 135 countries. Depending on the topic and author, ...

Most of us have our fair share of digital debris. After all, with drives measured in one-million-million byte increments it’s tempting to never delete anything. The downside is you may never be able ...

It takes about 45 minutes on the subway to get from my childhood home in Brighton Beach to Grand Army Plaza, the site of the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. It was freshmen year at James ...

The Gwinnett County Public Libraries will be closed through Wednesday due to a major book reclassification that will replace the 144-year-old Dewey Decimal Classification system with more ...