Dropping Dewey Decimal
A public library in Arizona is the first in the nation to abandon the Dewey Decimal system. They’ve replaced it with something humans can actually browse. One of the librarians points out something we’ve all know for years: “People think of books by subject. Very few people say, ‘Oh, I know Dewey by heart.’”
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