Biography
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Mevil Dewey was born on December 10th 1851 and was also an American librarian, educator, founder of the Lake Placid Club and inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification.
He earned a bachelor's degree in 1874 and a master's in 1877. Immediately receiving his bachelor's degree he was hired at a library are reclassify its collections. Dewey worked out a new scheme that superimposed (place or lay one thing over another) a system of decimal numbers on a structure of knowledge first outlined by Sir Francis Bacon (an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist and author). Dewey copyrighted that system in 1976.
In 1883 to 1888 he was chief librarian at Colombia University and from 1888 to 1906 Melvil was the director of the University of the State of New York. In 1895 Dewey founded the Lake Placid Club. In 1878, Melvil Dewey married Annie Godfrey but married another woman called Emily Beal in 1924. He had one son, Godfrey Dewey in 1887 who was the President of the Lake Placid Organising Committee. Unfortunately in New York and died of December 26 1931 in Florida, at the age of 80, sixteen days after his eightieth birthday.
He earned a bachelor's degree in 1874 and a master's in 1877. Immediately receiving his bachelor's degree he was hired at a library are reclassify its collections. Dewey worked out a new scheme that superimposed (place or lay one thing over another) a system of decimal numbers on a structure of knowledge first outlined by Sir Francis Bacon (an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist and author). Dewey copyrighted that system in 1976.
In 1883 to 1888 he was chief librarian at Colombia University and from 1888 to 1906 Melvil was the director of the University of the State of New York. In 1895 Dewey founded the Lake Placid Club. In 1878, Melvil Dewey married Annie Godfrey but married another woman called Emily Beal in 1924. He had one son, Godfrey Dewey in 1887 who was the President of the Lake Placid Organising Committee. Unfortunately in New York and died of December 26 1931 in Florida, at the age of 80, sixteen days after his eightieth birthday.