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• Activities of Melvil Dewey - Notes on Dewey's involvement in the professionalization of librarianship as well as spelling reform and metrication.
• A Biography of Melvil Dewey - Short biography from the current publishers of the Dewey Decimal System.
• Cataloger's Revenge - Toy with Dewey's face by dragging the mouse. [Java]
• A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library - The first edition of Melvil Dewey's decimal classification and relative index (Amherst, 1876). [Text/image/PDF]
• Dewey in Boston: 1876-1883 - Conference paper by Wayne A. Wiegand exploring Dewey's unorthodox business activities combining library supplies, metrication and simplified spelling. [PDF]
• Dr. Melvil Dewey - Portrait with description of Dewey's activities in Lake Placid, Florida.
• Dr. Melvil Dewey Dead In Florida - New York Times obituary emphasising Dewey's library career and the Lake Placid Club.
• Melvil Dewey: Biographical Information
• Melvil Dewey: Founder of Book Classification - Biography.
• Melvil Dewey: the Father of Modern Librarianship - Biography with outline classes of the Dewey Decimal System and web links.
• Melvil Louis Kossuth Dewey - Biography from the Library School Jeopardy site.

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