Las Vegas Sun

Dewey Decimal System still most common, but some libraries using updated classification

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Dewey ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Gwinnett libraries shelve Dewey Decimal system in favor of bookstore model

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 ...
Rapid City Journal

A time for change: Dewey decimal, a system in transition

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 ...
PC Magazine

Dewey Decimal system

A book classification system for libraries that was created by Melvil Dewey in the 1870s and copyrighted in 1876. Used to this day in thousands of libraries worldwide, mostly for non-fiction content, ...