The Efficient, Inventive (Often Annoying) Melvil Dewey

It was Melvil Dewey who set out to put libraries in order by creating a helpful system of numbers to organize books into categories, and who then promoted the idea of creating and maintaining free public libraries for the education of all. Both of these ideas did much to improve the world, and it is on these improvements associated with Dewey that we often look today, and for which we thank him, though we also keep in mind the weaknesses of Dewey that promoted racism and sexism as well.

A first look at Melvil Dewey for the youngest of readers.