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 ...
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 ...