Author:Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey

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Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey
(1851–1931)

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American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System of library classification.

Works

1876 A Classification and subject index for cataloguing and arranging the books and pamphlets of a library (transcription project)
1885 Decimal classification and relativ index for arranging, cataloguing, and indexing public and private libraries and for pamphlets, clippings, notes, scrap books, index rerums, etc. Boston, Library bureau. IA IA
1886 Librarianship as a profession for college-bred women. An address delivered before the Association of collegiate alumnæ, on March 13, 1886, by Melvil Dewey. Boston, Library bureau. (HathiTrust)
1887 Library notes: improved methods and labor-savers for librarians, readers and writers. Boston: Library bureau. (HathiTrust) (HathiTrust)
1889 Libraries as related to the educational work of the state. Albany. (HathiTrust)
1890 Statistics of libraries in the state of New York numbering over 300 volumes. Albany
1894 Library school rules: 1. Card catalog rules; 2. Accession book rules; 3. Shelf list rules, by Melvil Dewey. IA IA
1895 Abridged decimal classification and relative index for libraries. Boston, Library bureau. (HathiTrust)
1898 Simplified library school rules. Boston, London [etc.] Library bureau. IA
1901 Field and future of traveling libraries (HathiTrust)
1904 A.L.A. catalog. Washington, Government Printing Office.
"Libraries," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905) (with James Morton Paton, Charles Alexander Nelson, and James Hulme Canfield)
"Library Administration," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

Works about Dewey

"Dewey, Melvil," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1931, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 92 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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