Charles Ammi Cutter ( 1837 – 1903 ), inspired by the decimal classification of his contemporary Melvil Dewey, and with Dewey's initial encouragement, developed his own classification scheme for the Winchester Town Library and then the Boston Athenaeum, at which he served as librarian for twenty-four years.

The Dewey Decimal Classification ( DDC ), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system created by Melvil Dewey in 1876.

While he lived, Melvil Dewey edited each edition himself: he was followed by other editors who had been very much influenced by him.

The American Library Association was formed, as well as The American Library Journal, Melvil Dewey published his decimal based system of classification, and the United States Bureau of Education published its report, " Public libraries in the United States of America ; their history, condition, and management.

* December 26 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, inventor of Dewey Decimal Classification ( b. 1851 )

* Dewey Decimal Classification invented by Melvil Dewey

* December 10 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, inventor of Dewey Decimal Classification ( d. 1931 )

Putnam ’ s activities with the American Library Association led him to join with Justin Winsor and Melvil Dewey as official delegates to the International Conference of Librarians in London in 1897 When Winsor died shortly thereafter, Putnam served the remainder of his term as President of the ALA.

They met at pristine Lake Placid, New York at the invitation of Melvil Dewey.

A particularly influential figure was Melvil Dewey ( inventor of the eponymous Dewey Decimal System, who was also responsible for the development of the hanging file folder ).

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.

* Melvil Dewey ( 1851 – 1931 ), American librarian

Dr. Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, and the founder of the Lake Placid Club, proposed that Lake Stearns change its name to Lake Placid.

At its dedication, Melvil Dewey, creator of a widely used book classification system, delivered the opening address.

* Melvil Dewey ( 1851 – 1931 ), inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification System for libraries

While Carnegie provided the institutions where librarianship as a profession blossomed, it was Melvil Dewey who was a primary force in establishing the professionalization of librarians and library education in the US.

The plot concerns a merchant, Mr Sterling, who wants to marry off his elder daughter to Sir John Melvil, who is actually in love with her younger sister, Fanny.

The publication of Ro periodicals was supported by several American sponsors, especially from the Marietta, Ohio area, including Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification ( another attempt to categorize human knowledge ), Vice President Charles G. Dawes, George White, who mentioned Ro in the Congressional Record, and Alice Vanderbilt Morris of IALA.

* Melvil Poupaud, who is in both Le Temps qui reste and Le Refuge.

Miss Charlton, who had recently completed a summer course at Amherst College in the newly developed field of librarianship, and is thought to have studied under Melvil Dewey, came to this library in 1895.

The spelling of the building's name was decided by a previous owner, Melvil Dewey, founder of the Lake Placid Club, who was an advocate of spelling reform.

* Melvil Dewey, invented the Dewey Decimal library classification system.

* Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, founded a resort in the town.

Variations on this system were used in libraries until the late 1800s when Melvil Dewey developed the Dewey Decimal Classification in 1876, which is still in use today.

* Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, wrote published works in simplified spellings and even simplified his own name from Melville to Melvil.

This was a time in history when Andrew Carnegie was building libraries across the nation and Melvil Dewey created the Dewey Decimal System and founded the American Library Association.

Born the son of Major Guy Melvil Gibbs and Margaret Gibbs ( née St John ) and educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College Sandhurst, Gibbs was commissioned into the Kings Royal Rifle Corps on 31 December 1939 during the early stages of World War II.

They wrote to the system's creator, Melvil Dewey, asking for permission to modify his system in this way ; he agreed, so long as their system was not translated into English.

It was founded in 1876 by Melvil Dewey ( familiar as the inventor of the Dewey decimal system ).

In 1884, she was hired by Melvil Dewey, the librarian of Columbia College, as a cataloguer.

In its early issues, Charles Cutter, creator of the Cutter Expansive Classification system, developed his ideas ; R. R. Bowker discussed cataloging principles ; and managing editor Melvil Dewey made recommendations for early library circulation systems.

As a young adult he advocated spelling reform ; he changed his name from the usual " Melville " to " Melvil ", without redundant letters, and for a time changed his surname to " Dui ".

In 1989, Godrèche starred in Jacques Doillon's La Fille de 15 ans with Melvil Poupaud, which brought her fame.

In 2007, she played a supporting role opposite Parker Posey and Melvil Poupaud in Broken English, an independent American feature written and directed by her daughter Zoe Cassavetes.

Her attempts to extricate herself from the arrangement with Melvil lead to her becoming the proposed bride of Melvil's elderly uncle, Lord Ogleby.

I never met John Dewey, whose style was a sort of verbal fog and who had written asking me to go to Mexico with him when he was investigating the cause of Trotsky ; ;

In 1879, Peirce was appointed Lecturer in logic at the new Johns Hopkins University, which was strong in a number of areas that interested him, such as philosophy ( Royce and Dewey did their PhDs at Hopkins ), psychology ( taught by G. Stanley Hall and studied by Joseph Jastrow, who coauthored a landmark empirical study with Peirce ), and mathematics ( taught by J. J. Sylvester, who came to admire Peirce's work on mathematics and logic ).

Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck are a trio of fictional, anthropomorphic ducks who appear in animated cartoons and comic books published by the Walt Disney Company.

Public education was a subject of great interest to groundbreaking social progressives such as Lester Frank Ward and John Dewey who believed that a democratic system of government was impossible without a universal and comprehensive system of education.

Willkie consistently spoke of the need to aid Britain against Germany ; this contrasted with his main rivals Taft, Dewey, and Vandenberg, who were isolationists.

Dewey, the District Attorney for Manhattan, had risen to national fame as the " Gangbuster " prosecutor who had sent numerous infamous Mafia figures to prison, most notably Lucky Luciano, the organized-crime boss of New York City.

Dewey, who had been the Republican nominee in 1944, was regarded as the frontrunner when the primaries began.

However, Dewey, who realized that a defeat in Oregon would end his chances at the nomination, sent his powerful political organization into the state and spent large sums of money on campaign ads in Oregon.

# Martin Dewey Whitaker ( 1946 – 1960 ), who worked to develop the atomic bomb

Dewey became the leader of moderate-to-liberal Republicans, who were based in the northeastern and Pacific Coast states, while Taft became the leader of conservative Republicans who dominated most of the Midwest and parts of the South.

Dewey then made Bricker ( who was supported by Taft ) his running mate.

During that campaign, however, with the war in Europe intensifying, he was widely considered too young and inexperienced for the presidency and lost the nomination to Wendell Willkie, who strongly disliked him and considered endorsing Roosevelt against Dewey at the time of his death in 1944.

Witch and Warlock are mischievous little magically-endowed children who are sometimes playmates and / or thorns in the side of Huey, Dewey and Louie.

* Members of Sturges's unofficial " stock company " of character actors who appear in Sullivan's Travels include George Anderson, Al Bridge, Chester Conklin, Jimmy Conlin, William Demarest, Robert Dudley, Byron Foulger, Robert Greig, Harry Hayden, Esther Howard, Arthur Hoyt, J. Farrell MacDonald, Torben Meyer, Charles R. Moore, Frank Moran, Jack Norton, Franklin Pangborn, Emory Parnell, Victor Potel, Dewey Robinson, Harry Rosenthal, Julius Tannen and Robert Warwick.

Dewey complained about the abuse to the British commander General Douglas Gracey, who took exception to Dewey's objections and declared the American persona non grata.

Dulles was a close associate of Thomas E. Dewey, who became the presidential candidate of the Republican Party in the 1944 election and 1948.

Parks composed the faux-psychedelic song " Black Sheep " ( a parody of SMiLE and Brian Wilson's style in general ) for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, sung by John C. Reilly, who portrays the titular character.

After discovery of gold on Lynx Creek in the spring of 1863, the Dewey area was settled around the summer 1863 by pioneer prospector, rancher and Indian-fighter King Woolsey ( 1832 – 1879 ), who founded the Agua Fria Ranch, then better known as " Woolsey Valley ," to supply the miners.