DES MOINES, Iowa – Vicki Myron intended to wait a year or two before getting another cat. Her best-selling book, "Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World," was keeping her on the road ...

Sherry Preston: Are you curious about the Dewey Decimal system? The Dewey Decimal system was designed to organize library books by putting a number on the book spine. Sherry Preston is the public ...

It is the 174th birthday of Melvil Dewey, the man who created the Dewey Decimal System, and was responsible more than any other person for the creation and promotion of the field of Library Science in ...

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If you’ve ever wandered through a library and wondered why history is over here, while cooking lives comfortably over there, you have Melvil Dewey to thank. He’s the 19th-century librarian who looked ...

Melvil Dewey made huge contributions to the library world during his life. In 1876, while he was a student at Amhurst, Dewey started a library product and furniture business called the Library Bureau.

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 ...

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