To learn more about the Dewey Decimal System, check out “The Dewey Decimal System” (Children’s Press, $6.95, ages 7-11) by Allan Fowler: (Classification-Dewey decimal).

In the latest issue of the journal Signs, Ms. Olson detects phallocentrism in Dewey’s famous decimals. Nor is the Library of Congress system free from gender bias.

“You can find books easily.” Score one for the library’s bookstore-style layout. And shed a tiny tear for the Dewey Decimal Classification system, long the standard in the industry.

The Dewey Decimal Classification system is used throughout the library with DVDS, audiobooks, and more. The only section at TPL that does not go by Dewey is the fiction section.

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 ...

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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 ...

Dewey is one of a variety of information organization systems used by libraries to sort the books on their shelves. It’s based on moving books into sets of fixed, predefined categories which are ...