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The Dewey Decimal Classification system was first published in 1876 by Melvil Dewey.
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the Dewey system was made by melvil Dewey in insperation of his late grandfather. he was a very clean man but did no know the was to sort his books. so he came up with a system to catorgarize his books. he then wanted to make it more precise so he came up with the decimal system so he could catorgarize them to small amounts.
Melvil Dewey developed the Dewey Decimal System in 1876. The system is a method for placing books on library shelves in a specific and repeatable order that makes it easier to find any specific book or to return it to its proper place.
DDC is a library classification system invented in 1876.
American librarian Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) invented his famous decimal classification system for books in 1876.
The Dewey Decimal Classification system was created by Melvil Dewey in 1876. It revolutionized library organization by categorizing books according to subject matter and assigning them specific call numbers for easier location and retrieval.
It was created in 1876 by Melvil Dewey and is currently owned by the online computer library center in Dublin, Ohio.
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.
Dewey was born on 10 December 1851. His book was published before April 1876. He would have been 24 at that time. Lydenberg, H.M. Dewey, Melvil. Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. Suplement I; pp 241-243.
Melville Dewey invented the Dewey Decimal System of Classification which allowed books to be shelved by subject. Most people doing research liked this idea since they found most of the books they wanted very close to each other. The idea caught on and it is now used in over 42 countries.