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 ...
Longmont Times-Call

St. Vrain Valley School District secures copyright on new library classification system

LONGMONT — Red Hawk Elementary School’s library really is one of a kind. The St. Vrain Valley School District has secured a copyright on the classification system that the Erie school’s library ...
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 ...
YES! Magazine

This Library Takes an Indigenous Approach to Categorizing Books

For more than a century, the Dewey Decimal Classification system has dictated the way libraries organize their collections. And the way they organize and sort information says a lot about what kind of ...
The Harvard Crimson

Library Classification.

For the greater convenience of those pursuing special studies, accessions to the library are classed under the separate heads. The "Bulletin" for January gives the following detailed description of ...
Nature

Colon Classification

THE interesting library classification code set forth in this book by the Librarian of the University of Madras differs from others in that instead of showing a class subdivision for every topic, the ...