Longmont Times-Call

St. Vrain Valley School District secures copyright on new library classification system

LONGMONT — Red Hawk Elementary School’s library really is one of a kind. The St. Vrain Valley School District has secured a copyright on the classification system that the Erie school’s library ...
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 ...
Longmont Times-Call

Red Hawk Elementary library scraps Dewey Decimal System for bookstore model

ERIE — The newest elementary school in the St. Vrain Valley School District is scrapping the time-honored Dewey Decimal System and opting for a more user-friendly model for organizing books. Red Hawk ...
Wane

Ditchin’ Dewey: Kendallville the latest library to get rid of the classification method

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

American Library Assn. strips name of Dewey Decimal System creator from annual award

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 ...