A book classification system for libraries that was created by Melvil Dewey in the 1870s and ... mostly for non-fiction content, the Dewey Decimal identification of a book is: subject (3 digits ...

Melvil Dewey was rebuked by the New York state ... (JTA) — Seems like the creator of the Dewey Decimal System, the book-classification method for libraries that bears his name, was out of ...

Former Alfred University student Melvil Dewey, originator of the Dewey Decimal System that was used by many libraries to classify their collections, and President Boothe Colwell Davis persuaded Andrew ...