GREENWOOD, Ind. (WTHR) - Unless you know sports book are listed at 796 in the Dewey Decimal System, and cookbooks are somewhere in the 641 range, you might get lost in the non-fiction section of your ...

ASHBURNHAM — Books about homosexuality are on the same shelf as books on incest and prostitution. Homer’s “Iliad” is in the nonfiction section. The works of Shakespeare and books on Elizabethan ...

Deer Park Library director Rebecca Pool decided in September to make one of the most dramatic changes in the facility’s 53-year history. The library ditched the Dewey Decimal System. The new approach ...

KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (WANE) – For 140 years people have been using the Dewey Decimal System to find books at a library. It’s a classification method that assigns a group of numbers to books and their ...

It will be interesting to see if the bookstore organization scheme that Albany Public Library branches will use in place of the Dewey Decimal System works as well as the public seems to think it will ...

Our library uses the Dewey Decimal System for classifying books. Devised by Melvil Dewey around 1876, the book’s location is determined by the book’s subject — thus, fiction books are shelved by the ...

ALBANY — A century after Melvil Dewey called Albany and the State Library home, the city's newest public libraries are poised to abandon his famous decimals. The shift starts next month at the ...