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I assume see also and/or inspired by good the ol' Dewey Decimal System? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by blakesterz 6y ago
I assume see also and/or inspired by good the ol' Dewey Decimal System?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes
You probably don't know much about Dewey, he's got a pretty "interesting" life story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvil_Dewey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvil_Dewey
"At the June 2019 conference of the American Library Association the Council voted to remove Dewey's name from its top honor, the Melvil Dewey Medal; the resolution cited Dewey's history of racism, anti-Semitism, and sexual harassment. The resolution was passed overwhelmingly with no debate. The award was renamed the ALA Medal of Excellence at the Association's January 2020 conference"
- jen729w 6y ago(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) Yep, a friend of mine named it in 'honour' of Dewey Decimal. Kinda genius, which I can say because that wasn't my idea. :-) But yeah had no idea he was a terrible human, that's a shame.
- OJFord 6y agoI wonder when it was created in his name? Given: > He resigned from the American Library Association due to allegations of sexual harassment, racism, and antisemitism in 1905.
- jen729w 6y agoI’m not a historian, my friend. Dewey’s kinda famous, my mate basically said it out loud one day, my name is Johnny, the system has a decimal in it, boom, that was it. At the time I was the only person using it and the idea of a website was years away. Let’s not read too much in to it eh.