Las Vegas Sun

Dewey Decimal System still most common, but some libraries using updated classification

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Dewey ...
Wane

Ditchin’ Dewey: Kendallville the latest library to get rid of the classification method

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 ...
IEEE

Indonesian Dewey Decimal Classification System Using Support Vector Machine and Neural Network Algorithms

Abstract: The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system is used to classify books, allowing books to be categorized according to their respective fields in the library. However, knowledge and ...
Rapid City Journal

A time for change: Dewey decimal, a system in transition

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 Denver Post

Adams County libraries shelving Dewey Decimal

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 ...
Napa Valley Register

From the Librarian’s Desk: Decoding Dewey

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 ...