Dewey Decimal System Day today marks the birthday of librarian Melvil Dewey and celebrates the library classification system ...

THE study of classification is a necessary preliminary to the preparation of a comprehensive guide to recorded information. Of the multifarious systems that have been suggested for the classification ...

THE fifth report of the International Committee on the Decimal Classification was presented by F. Donker Duyvis to the Tenth Conference of the Institut international de Bibliographie at the Hague on ...

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 ...

First published anonymously in 1876 under title: A classification and subject index. 2d-14th editions published under title: Decimal classification and relativ index ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It has been argued that the Dewey Decimal Classification system—the DDC—is Hegelian, that the primary division of the system is based on Hegel ...

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 ...

Universal Decimal Classification was originally derived from Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), and managed by the organization now known as the International Federation of Information and ...

A librarian who identifies as queer wrestles with our tendency to classify both books and people. By Jess deCourcy Hinds As a librarian who has dated both men and women, I couldn’t help but think of ...