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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 ...

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 ...

GREENWOOD, Ind. (WTHR) - Unless you know sports book are listed at 796 in the Dewey Decimal System, and cookbooks are somewhere in the 641 range, you might get lost in the non-fiction section of your ...

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Gwinnett County libraries will be closed several days this week as they move away from the Dewey Decimal System. The system, which has been around since the late 1800s, is a ...

Can RFID banish tried-and-true library inventory methods? In a press release entitled, ‘RFID Enabled Active Shelf May Signal the Death of the Dewey Decimal System’, Baltimore company Barcoding, Inc., ...

The Deschutes Public Library system is ditching the Dewey Decimal System. Walk into a bookstore and how are the books arranged? By areas of interest or subject matter. That’s what the library system ...

Most of us have our fair share of digital debris. After all, with drives measured in one-million-million byte increments it’s tempting to never delete anything. The downside is you may never be able ...

Melvil Dewey was an organizational genius. His brainchild, the Dewey Decimal System, revolutionized how libraries catalog and sort their books and periodicals. Before he proposed putting publications ...