Melvil Dewey Quotes

American librarian (1851–1931)

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Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club.

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Birth Name: Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey

Alternative Names: Melvil Dui

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The cheapness and quickness of modern methods of communication has been like a growth of wings, so that a thousand things which were thought to belong like trees in one place may travel about like birds.

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.