Can RFID banish tried-and-true library inventory methods? In a press release entitled, ‘RFID Enabled Active Shelf May Signal the Death of the Dewey Decimal System’, Baltimore company Barcoding, Inc., ...

Is the Dewey Decimal system dying out in public libraries? The Dewey Decimal Classification system has been used in U.S. libraries since the 1870s when Melvil Dewey developed it and put his name on it ...

Melvil Dewey was a cash-strapped Amherst College student in the early 1870s, working at the school library to pay his bills. An intense young scholar, Dewey felt at home among the books. There was ...

Death to the Dewey Decimal System. Every branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library will be closed Monday through Wednesday as staff embark upon a mission they’re calling the “bookshelf ...

As every book-lover knows, it is important to have a system for organizing your bookshelf (and for pretending you have a window seat reading nook). Whether you prefer to sort by author, title, or the ...