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 ...
Napa Valley Register

From the Librarian’s Desk: Decoding Dewey

Did you know that Dec. 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day? Me neither. Born on Dec. 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey is the librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. And in an age ...
Longmont Times-Call

Red Hawk Elementary library scraps Dewey Decimal System for bookstore model

ERIE — The newest elementary school in the St. Vrain Valley School District is scrapping the time-honored Dewey Decimal System and opting for a more user-friendly model for organizing books. Red Hawk ...
Bustle

Turns Out The Man Who Created The Dewey Decimal System Was Hugely Problematic

On Sunday, the American Library Association (ALA) voted to remove the name of one of its founders, Melvil Dewey, from the highest honor given to library professionals. Nearly 90 years after Dewey's ...
JSTOR Daily

Hegel and Knowledge Organization, or Why the Dewey Decimal Classification Is Not Hegelian

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It has been argued that the Dewey Decimal Classification system—the DDC—is Hegelian, that the primary division of the system is based on Hegel ...