“The librarian who reads is lost.”

— Melvil Dewey

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About Melvil Dewey

Librarian • American

Melvil Dewey was an influential American librarian and educator who invented the Dewey Decimal Classification system for library cataloging. Dewey was a co-founder of the American Library Association and a pioneer in...

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