Author:Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey

←Author Index: De

Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey (1851–1931)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery. American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System of library classification.

Works

• 1876 Classification and subject index for cataloguing and arranging the books and pamphlets of a library. (Copy available at Gutenberg.org)
• 1885 Decimal classification and relative index for arranging, cataloguing, and indexing public and private libraries and for pamphlets, clippings, notes, scrap books, index rerums, etc. Boston, Library bureau.
• 1886 Librarianship as a profession for college-bred women. An address delivered before the Association of collegiate alumnæ, on March 13, 1886, by Melvil Dewey. Boston, Library bureau.
• 1887 Library notes: improved methods and labor-savers for librarians, readers and writers. Boston : Library bureau.
• 1895 Abridged decimal classification and relative index for libraries. Boston, Library bureau.
• 1898 Simplified library school rules. Boston, London [etc.] Library bureau.
• 1889 Libraries as related to the educational work of the state. Albany.
• 1890 Statistics of libraries in the state of New York numbering over 300 volumes. Albany
• 1894 Library school rules: 1. Card catalog rules; 2. Accession book rules; 3. Shelf list rules, by Melvil Dewey.
• 1904 A.L.A. catalog. Washington, Government Printing Office.
• “Libraries,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905. (with James Morton Paton, Charles Alexander Nelson, and James Hulme Canfield)
• “Library Administration” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Works about Dewey

• “Dewey, Melvil” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.