Dewey overdue for a makeover, librarians say

SouthtownStar (Chicago, IL) | September 21, 2008 | Copyright

by Susan DeMar Lafferty Staff Writer In the sober, settled atmosphere of a library there is a radical movement afoot that is knocking books off their long established shelves and throwing Dewey out the window. At 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning, when most library patrons are pulling the covers over their heads, refusing to acknowledge the rising sun, two bold and daring librarians are stirring at the Frankfort Public Library, shuffling books and tearing off those time-honored Dewey Decimal System numbers that no one really understood anyway. "We know it's a little radical, but that's OK," said ...

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