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 ...

The Gwinnett County Public Libraries will be closed through Wednesday due to a major book reclassification that will replace the 144-year-old Dewey Decimal Classification system with more ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... THORNTON — Clunky. Out of touch. Ready for the dustbin. Plenty would say that about General Motors or other American icons badly in need of retooling. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

What happens when the library’s computer catalog system breaks down? For “almost-librarian” Laura Raphael, it means chaos — and a promise to herself to learn the Dewey decimal system backward and ...

If your life had a Dewey decimal number, Laura Raphael could probably find your story on a library bookshelf faster than a book-borrower trying to beat closing time. But it hasn't been easy for this ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It has been argued that the Dewey Decimal Classification system—the DDC—is Hegelian, that the primary division of the system is based on Hegel ...