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 ...

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 ...

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.