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The Efficient, Inventive (Often Annoying) Melvil Dewey

By Alexis O'Neill
Illustrators Illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher Boyds Mills & Kane Press Imprint Calkins Creek ISBN

9781684371983

The Efficient, Inventive (Often Annoying) Melvil Dewey

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Melvil Dewey’s love of organization and words drove him to develop and implement his Dewey Decimal system, leaving a significant and lasting impact in libraries across the country.



When Melvil Dewey realized every library organized their books differently, he wondered if he could invent a system all libraries could use to organize them efficiently. A rat-a-tat speaker, Melvil was a persistent (and noisy) advocate for free public libraries. And while he made enemies along the way as he pushed for changes—like his battle to establish the first library school with women as students, through it all he was EFFICIENT, INVENTIVE, and often ANNOYING as he made big changes in the world of public libraries—changes still found in the libraries of today!

Author’s note, with archival photographs. Time line. Information about Dewey’s other reform interests and the Dewy Decimal Classification System. Selected sources. Full-color digital illustrations. Black-and-white archival photographs.
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