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 ...

KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (WANE) – For 140 years people have been using the Dewey Decimal System to find books at a library. It’s a classification method that assigns a group of numbers to books and their ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... THORNTON — Clunky. Out of touch. Ready for the dustbin. Plenty would say that about General Motors or other American icons badly in need of retooling. But ...

Melvil Dewey was rebuked by the New York state Board of Regents and resigned as state librarian over complaints from Jewish leaders about his anti-Semitism. (JTA) — Seems like the creator of the Dewey ...

Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was born on December 10, 1851. Among other things, Dewey was a self-proclaimed reformer, so when working for the Amherst College library in the ...