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Dewey turns 120 and goes high tech. (OCLC Forest Press introduces Electronic Dewey, CD-ROM version of Dewey Decimal Classification)
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May 1, 1993
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One hundred and twenty years after Melvil Dewey introduced his decimal classification system at Amherst College, OCLC Forest Press has published a high-tech CD-ROM version of the Dewey Decimal Classification, called Electronic Dewey.
"The Dewey Decimal Classification is the first major classification system in the world to be available in interactive electronic format," said Peter J. Paulson, executive director of Forest Press. Electronic Dewey enables users to search DDC quickly and efficiently and offers new ways for classifiers to access Dewey numbers."
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