MANY classifications have been evolved rather as an intellectual exercise than with any specific aim in view. Others have been made in the attempt to devise a so-called logical system. Most have ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

Public libraries have long utilized the Dewey Decimal classification system which uses 10 broad categories and breaks them down into subtopics.