Written by Melvil Dewey

Dewey Decimal Classification

by Melvil Dewey

Dewey decimal classification is a proprietary library classification method developed by Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey, an American librarian and educator and the inventor of this system.   Prior to invention of DDC, libraries had been assigning permanent bookshelves based on their acquisition rather than topic or genre. DDC created the conce..