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 ...

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A radical makeover at Gwinnett County libraries should make it a lot easier to find and check out books, administrators say. This week, the county is getting rid of the age-old ...

When I first read a manuscript of Grant McCracken‘s Culturematic some time back, two sentences struck me so deeply that I highlighted them and simultaneously wrote a note on the table of contents: ...

Long ago, our ancestors lived in caves and devised crude, rough tools to help them get through the day. One of those crude, rough tools was human language. Sure, language gave us such things as ...

ERIE — The newest elementary school in the St. Vrain Valley School District is scrapping the time-honored Dewey Decimal System and opting for a more user-friendly model for organizing books. Red Hawk ...

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 ...

On December 10, 1851 Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was born. Just in case you’re unfamiliar with this name, Dewey gave us the Dewey Decimal System that many libraries still use today to organize their ...

The governing body of the American Library Assn. voted to remove the name of Melvil Dewey, the creator of the Dewey Decimal System, from one of its annual awards. The ALA council made the decision on ...