To find a favorite book in Elgin’s Rakow Branch library, 6-year-old Rina Teglia marched straight to the “Ready to Read” section and picked out “Bathtime for Biscuit.” While she was at it, a nearby ...

The council of the American Library Association is removing its founder, Melvil Dewey, from its creative leadership medal. Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System for organizing library books, has ...

For "almost-librarian" Laura Raphael, it means chaos … and a promise to herself to learn the Dewey decimal system backward and forward, without the computer's help. Raphael, an associate librarian in ...

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 ...

Celebrate the birthday of Melville Dewey on #NationalDeweyDecimalSytemDay. Source: Pixabay The inventor of the Dewey Decimal System of library classification, Melville Dewey, was born on 10 December ...

When a public library in Gilbert, Ariz., opened this month, the books had no Dewey decimals on their spines. The library is organized like a bookstore. Library official Marshall Shore explains why. In ...

KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A northeastern Indiana library is jettisoning the Dewey Decimal System in favor of an easier method for finding books. The Kendallville Public Library’s staff says a simple ...