In her book, Natalia Rogach Alexander discusses how the celebrated thinker on democracy and education can still enlighten ...

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If you’ve ever wandered through a library and wondered why history is over here, while cooking lives comfortably over there, you have Melvil Dewey to thank. He’s the 19th-century librarian who looked ...

Did you know that Dec. 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day? Me neither. Born on Dec. 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey is the librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. And in an age ...

Terrorist outrages committed on Valentine's Day and a superflu epidemic have devastated New York City, whose population is now about 800,000, in film music composer Larson's less than stellar debut, ...

OCLC, a Dublin-based nonprofit that partners with thousands of libraries around the world, is laying off about 80 workers in central Ohio amid uncertain federal funding and a shifting artificial ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

The PBS series "Independent Lens" explores the crucial role of public libraries in new documentary. "Free For All" looks at the history of public libraries and efforts to ban books and reduce funding ...

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