melvil+dewey

Melvil DeweyBorn: December 10, 1851Died: December 26, 1931 He was born at Adams Center, New York and his birth name is Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey. He is the youngest out of 5 children. He is best known as the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification System. He studied at Amherst College in New York. He was also one of the founders of the American library association. Since the time of his death, the system was being used in over 96% of all American libraries. He also founded the Spelling Reform Association and preferred to spell his name as Melvil Dui. Where we got our information on Melvil Dewey-->[]