ALBANY — A century after Melvil Dewey called Albany and the State Library home, the city's newest public libraries are poised to abandon his famous decimals. The shift starts next month at the ...

After 17 days of golf and rest in Arizona sunshine, Tom Dewey returned last week to his job in Albany. He had gained five pounds and his tanned jowls showed it. Newsmen pressed him with questions ...

The Dewey Decimal System is at its base an inventory control system that was (and still is) widely accepted as a standard within the library field. It is not perfect, but it is an efficient system ...

He settled out of court, paying $2,147. In the years after Dewey’s death, these unsavory elements of his biography tended to be glossed over, as he was shored up as a pillar of the library field.

When the Perry Branch Library decided to stop using the Dewey Decimal System to organize its books, library officials saw the move as a way to make their stacks more user-friendly.