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Melvil Dewey
Profiles the librarian best known for his invention of the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
Irrepressible Reformer
Drawing from years of archival research, preeminent Melvil Dewey historian Wayne A. Wiegand has produced the first frank and comprehensive biography of this enigmatic reformer. While providing richer background on Dewey's positive achievements than earlier, reverential biographies, Wiegand reveals his subject as one who was "driven, tense, often arrogant," who had "an obsessive need to control...and self-righteously denied his own racism and class prejudices.".
Melvil Dewey, the Man and the Classification
This collection of essays sheds new light on Dewey's era in American Librarianship. Papers presented at a seminar held at the New York State Library, December 10-11, 1981. Papers by Keyes D. Metcalf, David Kaser, Dee Garrison, Francis Miksa, Wayne A. Wiegand, John P. Comaromi, W. Boyd Rayward, and Gordon Stevenson.
The Efficient, Inventive (Often Annoying) Melvil Dewey
Melvil Dewey's love of organization and words drove him to develop and implement his Dewey Decimal system, leaving a significant and lasting impact in libraries across the country. When Melvil Dewey realized every library organized their books differently, he wondered if he could invent a system all libraries could use to organize them efficiently. A rat-a-tat speaker, Melvil was a persistent (and noisy) advocate for free public libraries. And while he made enemies along the way as he pushed for changes--like his battle to establish the first library school with women as students, through it all he was EFFICIENT, INVENTIVE, and often ANNOYING as he made big changes in the world of public libraries--changes still found in the libraries of today! From TI 9781684371983 HC.
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