Meet Melvil
Who put the
Dewey
in the
Dewey Decimal System?
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Melvil Dewey
lived
an extraordinary life!
He was born in
Adams Center, New York, on
December 10, 1851,
and died on
December 26, 1931.
He was a
librarian
who invented a
decimal classification system
for library books
called the
Dewey Decimal System.
In 1876, he founded the
American Library Association
and published the first
Library Journal,
which included
new library trends and book reviews.
Melvil
opened the first library school in 1887 located at
Columbia University.
Melvil Dewey
sure did a lot of things in his lifetime.
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