Dec. 14—While different literature providers use various informational systems, the Tahlequah Public Library has relied on the Dewey Decimal Classification for many years. TPL Branch Manager Jeremy ...

A book classification system for libraries that was created by Melvil Dewey in the 1870s and copyrighted in 1876. Used to this day in thousands of libraries worldwide, mostly for non-fiction content, ...

When I first read a manuscript of Grant McCracken‘s Culturematic some time back, two sentences struck me so deeply that I highlighted them and simultaneously wrote a note on the table of contents: ...

Public libraries have long utilized the Dewey Decimal classification system which uses 10 broad categories and breaks them down into subtopics. Many have grown up learning Dewey Decimal in schools and ...

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A radical makeover at Gwinnett County libraries should make it a lot easier to find and check out books, administrators say. This week, the county is getting rid of the age-old ...

The Gwinnett County Public Libraries will be closed through Wednesday due to a major book reclassification that will replace the 144-year-old Dewey Decimal Classification system with more ...

ASHBURNHAM — Books about homosexuality are on the same shelf as books on incest and prostitution. Homer’s “Iliad” is in the nonfiction section. The works of Shakespeare and books on Elizabethan ...

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 ...

Most of us have our fair share of digital debris. After all, with drives measured in one-million-million byte increments it’s tempting to never delete anything. The downside is you may never be able ...