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 ...

Heidemann explained during the event that traditional classification systems such as the Dewey Decimal System, the Library of Congress Classification System and the Library of Congress Subject ...

Rosen-blatt has nicknamed the narrator Dewey Decimal, because Decimal is obsessed with reorganizing the books in the main branch of the New York Public Library, which no longer has a working ...

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 ...

Dec. 14—While different literature providers use various informational systems, the Tahlequah Public Library has relied on the Dewey Decimal Classification for many years. TPL Branch Manager ...

The Library Journal article noted that Dewey's system is still the most widely used in the world and that fewer than 12 percent of librarians surveyed favored abandoning it altogether.

Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) not only created public libraries in his home state of New York but he also developed the entire concept of a free public library system in the United States. He founded ...

The long-time Dewey Decimal System method of organizing books soon won't be the main organizing method at the Deschutes Public Library, to be replaced in coming months with a topic-based system to ...