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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1981
Page
13
For six decades Melvil Dewey pursued simpler spelling and even devised new letters. He favored writing words as they sound, and his name appeared as Melvil Dui. Guess the spoken forms and provide the correct spellings.
Melvil Dewey born in Adams Center New York in 1851 taught school at 17 and studied libraries in college. He invented the Dewey Decimal System in 1876 at age 25 and later founded the American Library Association to aid libraries and librarians.
Dewey championed winter sports by promoting skiing ice skating and sledding in the United States and establishing a resort hotel at Lake Placid New York to boost popularity and accessibility for visitors and athletes.
Non-fiction collections are arranged by the Dewey Decimal system. Decimal subdivisions allow precise classification using numeric codes.
The excerpt explains three card types used for cataloging fiction: Author cards list books by the author's last name, Title cards list the title first, with leading A The or An ignored for sorting, and Subject cards start with the subject followed by the book.
A compact guide explains how biographies of people are organized under the Dewey Decimal numbers 921 or 92 or in a dedicated Biography section labeled B. It notes alphabetical filing by subject and notes easy to read E labeled children's versions with author initials.
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