Las Vegas Sun

Dewey Decimal System still most common, but some libraries using updated classification

Dewey Decimal System Day today marks the birthday of librarian Melvil Dewey and celebrates the library classification system ...
Wane

Ditchin’ Dewey: Kendallville the latest library to get rid of the classification method

KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (WANE) – For 140 years people have been using the Dewey Decimal System to find books at a library. It’s a classification method that assigns a group of numbers to books and their ...
insider.si.edu

Dewey decimal classification and relative index

First published anonymously in 1876 under title: A classification and subject index. 2d-14th editions published under title: Decimal classification and relativ index ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Lonely but informative Dewey Decimal class

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 ...
Nature

The Decimal Classification of Melvil Dewey and its Extension by the Brussels Institute of Bibliography

THE study of classification is a necessary preliminary to the preparation of a comprehensive guide to recorded information. Of the multifarious systems that have been suggested for the classification ...