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 ...
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 ...
Bustle

Turns Out The Man Who Created The Dewey Decimal System Was Hugely Problematic

On Sunday, the American Library Association (ALA) voted to remove the name of one of its founders, Melvil Dewey, from the highest honor given to library professionals. Nearly 90 years after Dewey's ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Melvil Dewey’s Name Stripped From Top Library Award

Each year, the American Library Association awards the Melvil Dewey Medal to a recipient who has demonstrated “creative leadership of a high order” in such fields as classification and cataloging, ...