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Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was born on December 10, 1851. Among other things, Dewey was a self-proclaimed reformer, so when working for the Amherst College library in the ...

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 ...

Universal Decimal Classification was originally derived from Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), and managed by the organization now known as the International Federation of Information and ...

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

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 ...