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Melville Dewey invented the Dewey Decimal System of Classification which allowed books to be shelved by subject. Most people doing research liked this idea since they found most of the books they wanted very close to each other. The idea caught on and it is now used in over 42 countries.

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Melvil Dewey founded the American Library Association (ALA) in 1876.

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Melvil Dewey founded the Lake Placid Club and the Dewey Decimal System. He was born in 1851 and died in 1931.

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He was most famous for creating the Dewey Decimal

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Melville Dewey was an American librarian,educator and inventor of the Dewey Decimal classification scheme for library classification.

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He created a system of classifying non-fiction books into different numercial categegories. This is still used by libraries, and is known as the Dewey decimal system.

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