KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (WANE) – For 140 years people have been using the Dewey Decimal System to find books at a library. It’s a classification method that assigns a group of numbers to books and their ...

The governing body of the American Library Assn. voted to remove the name of Melvil Dewey, the creator of the Dewey Decimal System, from one of its annual awards. The ALA council made the decision on ...

He’s bot to trot. John Dewey High School in Gravesend is home to a robotics program aimed at getting kids interested in engineering at a young age. Phil Dispenza teaches the five robotics classes and ...

ASHBURNHAM — Books about homosexuality are on the same shelf as books on incest and prostitution. Homer’s “Iliad” is in the nonfiction section. The works of Shakespeare and books on Elizabethan ...

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — A new pilates studio, The Daily Pilates, is coming to Basking Ridge. The Bernards Township Regional ...

Several Green Country Public Schools have canceled classes for weather-related problems. Prue and Dewey are two of the districts we've heard from so far that canceled because of power outages. Joseph ...

Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) not only created public libraries in his home state of New York but he also developed the entire concept of a free public library system in the United States. He founded the ...