See also: Dewey

Melvil Dewey (December 10th 1851 with Adams Center, New York - December 26th 1931 with Lake Placid, Florida) is a American Bibliothécaire . He conceived a system of grading of the books, the Decimal system of Dewey.

Biography

Born Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey , it makes its studies with the Amherst College, which it leaves graduate in 1874. From 1874 with 1877, it works as library assistant with the Bibliothèque of Amherst College. It is there that it conceives the Decimal system of Dewey in 1876.

It leaves then to Boston, where it founds The Library Journal , which becomes an influential agent for the development of the libraries in North America. With his friend and colleague Charles Ammi Cutter, it takes part in the beginnings of the American Library Association (WENT), of which it is elected president in 1890 and 1892.

In 1883, he becomes librarian of the Columbia College and founds shortly after the school of Bibliothéconomie of Columbia, which is the oldest institution of training of librarians in the world. This school, which is a great success moves with Albany in 1890 and becomes the New York State Library School . Of 1888 with 1906, Melvil Dewey directs the New York State Library School and, of 1888 with 1900, he is also the secretary of the university of the State of New York.

Melvil Dewey was also one of the promoters of the English Spelling reform, going even until transforming its name of Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey into Melvil Dui . The history will retain the intermediate form of Melvil Dewey . In its professional field, it will impose the American orthography catalog instead of the traditional English orthography catalogs .

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