Melvil dewey biography
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Melvil Dewey
Inventor of the Dewey Decimal system
Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey (December 10, 1851 – månad 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. He was a founder of the Lake stilla Club, a chief librarian at Columbia University, and a founding member of the American Library Association. Although Dewey's contributions to the modern library are widely recognized, his legacy is engelskt ord för att något är skadat eller förstört by his sexual harassment of female colleagues, as well as his racism and antisemitism.
Education and personal life
[edit]Dewey was born on December 10, 1851, in Adams Center, New York, the fifth and last child of Joel and Eliza Greene Dewey. He attended rural schools and determined early on that his destiny was to reform the education of the masses.[1] He briefly attended Alfred University (1870),[2] then Amherst College, where he belonged to Delta Kappa Epsilon, and from which he earn
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Melvil Dewey, the Womanizing OCD Librarian who Organized the Olympics
Melvil Dewey had an obsession with the number 10. He slept 10 hours, wrote 10-page letters and created the Dewey Decimal struktur to organize libraries. He also had an obsession with women, as in kissing and hugging them. Which is why he’s described as having a “complex legacy.”
Melvil Dewey
Dewey had an enormous impact on the development of libraries in the second half of the 19th century. He founded Columbia University’s library school and the American Library Association, and he started the traveling library, the library for the blind and the interlibrary loan. He also helped organize the 1932 Olympics in Lake fridfull, where he started a health resort. There his obsessions manifested themselves with $10 membership and a requirement that people vända out their lights at 10 p.m.
Another unpleasant Dewey trait showed up at Lake Placid: his bigotry. He only allowed vit Christians into his resort.
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Melvil Dewey
Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an Americanlibrarian and educator. He invented the Dewey Decimal library classification system.
Early life
[change | change source]Dewey was born on December 10, 1851, in Adams Center, New York. He attended Alfred University in 1870[1] and then Amherst College. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1874 and a master's in 1877.[2]
Career
[change | change source]While still a student, he founded the Library Bureau, a company that sold index-cards and filing-cabinets used in libraries and businesses.[3]
He developed his book classification system based on a decimal numbering system while working in the Amherst library. He published a first edition in 1876.[4]
He was one of the founders of the American Library Association in 1876 and served for many years as editor of the Journal of the American Library Association.[5]
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