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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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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 ...

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 ...

- a system used by libraries to classify nonfictional publications into subject categories; the subject is indicated by a three-digit numeral and further specification is given by numerals following a ...