The Deschutes Public Library system is ditching the Dewey Decimal System. Walk into a bookstore and how are the books arranged? By areas of interest or subject matter. That’s what the library system ...

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Back in 1876, a guy named Melvil Dewey came up with a way of organizing books in a library, and ever since, every fifth-grader in America has gotten the same dull lecture on how the Dewey Decimal ...

Deer Park Library director Rebecca Pool decided in September to make one of the most dramatic changes in the facility’s 53-year history. The library ditched the Dewey Decimal System. The new approach ...

ALBANY — A century after Melvil Dewey called Albany and the State Library home, the city's newest public libraries are poised to abandon his famous decimals. The shift starts next month at the ...

When the Perry Branch Library decided to stop using the Dewey Decimal System to organize its books, library officials saw the move as a way to make their stacks more user-friendly. But some skeptics ...

Melvil Dewey was an organizational genius. His brainchild, the Dewey Decimal System, revolutionized how libraries catalog and sort their books and periodicals. Before he proposed putting publications ...