Melvil Dewey

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Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey was an American librarian and educator who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. He was a founder of the Lake Placid Club, a chief librarian at Columbia College, founder of what would later become the Columbia University School of Library Service, and a founding member of the American Library Association. Although Dewey's contributions to the modern library are widely recognized, his legacy is marred by his sexual harassment of female colleagues, as well as his racism and antisemitism.

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1851 – 1931

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Born in: Adams Center
Educated at: Amherst CollegeAlfred University
Awards: 🏆 Library Hall of Fame

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"The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant."

— Melvil Dewey

Education1851–1931

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"The cheapness and quickness of modern methods of communication has been like a growth of wings, so that a thousand things which were thought to belong like trees in one place may travel about like bir…"

— Melvil Dewey

Education1851–1931

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1851
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1931
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