If your life had a Dewey decimal number, Laura Raphael could probably find your story on a library bookshelf faster than a book-borrower trying to beat closing time. But it hasn't been easy for this ...

Public libraries have long utilized the Dewey Decimal classification system which uses 10 broad categories and breaks them down into subtopics. Many have grown up learning Dewey Decimal in schools and ...

The Gwinnett County Public Libraries will be closed through Wednesday due to a major book reclassification that will replace the 144-year-old Dewey Decimal Classification system with more ...

When the history of business in the 1980s is finally written, it will be so studded with hostile takeovers and multibillion-dollar corporate buyouts that the most interesting takeover deal of them all ...

Long ago, our ancestors lived in caves and devised crude, rough tools to help them get through the day. One of those crude, rough tools was human language. Sure, language gave us such things as ...

Librarians actually think in terms of books in "the 398s" (folk and fairy tales) or "the 500s" (sciences). It won't be too hard to find your non-fiction titles in the new Central Library's "book ...

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 ...

To find a favorite book in Elgin’s Rakow Branch library, 6-year-old Rina Teglia marched straight to the “Ready to Read” section and picked out “Bathtime for Biscuit.” While she was at it, a nearby ...

Melissa Ubernosky is one of millions of Americans this month who are commemorating developmental disability awareness. Ubernosky, who's 35, is four months shy of 14 years working at George Memorial ...