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 ...

Readers of a certain age will remember when finding a book in the library meant searching for it in the card catalog, writing ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Dewey ...

Tribal Librarian Anne Heidemann and Chippewa Tribe member Melissa Isaac speak about Maawn Doobiigeng, a replacement for the Dewey Decimal System, Thursday afternoon at Hatcher Graduate Library. Akul ...

Melvil Dewey was a cash-strapped Amherst College student in the early 1870s, working at the school library to pay his bills. An intense young scholar, Dewey felt at home among the books. There was ...

Monarch High librarian Beatrice Gerrish wanted to organize her books using a bookstore model. But she couldn’t find a classification system she liked for a school library, so she decided to create her ...

Of course, these systems of organization are relatively new, only developed a little over a century ago. There were alternate, rival schemes for organizing the sum of human knowledge that didn’t catch ...