Melvil Dewey

thumb Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club. Quotes The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. "The Relation of the State to the Public Library", (1889) The cheapness and quickness of modern methods of communication has been like a growth of wings, so that a thousand things which were thought to belong like trees in one place may travel about like birds. "Field and Future of Traveling Libraries". Home Education Department. Bulletin. State University of New York (1901), (40). External links Melvil Dewey Category:Educators from the United States Category:Librarians from the United States Category:Editors from the United States Category:1851 births Category:1931 deaths Category:People from Boston Category:People from New York (state)