Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
proposed 1876 by Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) while acting librarian of Amherst College. He also crusaded for simplified spelling and the metric system.
Usage examples of "dewey decimal system".
Karla lapsed into a discussion of the Dewey decimal system and the Library of Congress cataloging system, which was numbing to say the least.
The Dewey Decimal System, devised by Melvil Dewey, is a way of shelving books in libraries.
We have a brand new museum ready waiting to house it - and cellophane and the Dewey Decimal system to file it.
The Dewey Decimal System of course, the APA standard form for citations, the concept of 'Encyclopedia' and the differences between those and 'Dictionaries' and 'Gazetteers.
Memories were not stored in a linear fashion, ordered by some cerebral Dewey decimal system.
Eight hours in the real world of the Dewey decimal system had helped her recover from the fright of the night before, but not from the dinner of the night before.
Di knew the Dewey decimal system the way most people knew the streets of their own neighborhoods.
So much for my fond hope that I was chasing a soft-bellied librarian who, dazed and confused, had been driven to this insane act by the stress of converting from the Dewey decimal system to a new computerized inventory.
It matches hersdignified, prim, and passionately interested in the deficiencies of the Dewey Decimal System.
Jammed higgledy-piggledy into cartons and tumbling from raw industrial shelving in flagrant disobedience to the Dewey Decimal system, they nonetheless exuded their familiar allure, a mixture of physical attractiveness and numinous potential.
Before you know it you be up to your ears in Librarian babies shitting their Pampers full of that Dewey decimal system.
He found the shoebox, one hiking boot and a pair of tennis shoes nearly concealing it, and in the box, as neatly aligned as if by the Dewey Decimal System, eleven cassettes.