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Download full textSalmon, Laura E. – 2000
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of Melvil Dewey's work in the American public library, both in Dewey's day and today. Using the writings of Melvil Dewey, as well as writings about him, this study examined what changes Dewey made and influenced as they specifically related to services provided to library users. This included…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification, Information Science
Wiegand, Wayne A. – 1996
This book is a biography of Melvil Dewey, the man behind the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Tracing Dewey's life and early influences that shaped it, the book explores Dewey's employment experiences, enterprises, and innovations and present a range of views on them; he was seen as an organizational genius but also as arrogant, manipulative,…
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Biographies, Change Agents, Dewey Decimal Classification
