Two Kenyan women - Wanjiru Koinange and Angela Wachuka - set out in 2017 to do something both ordinary and radical: rebuild neglected libraries in Nairobi.What began as a small community project ...

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China should establish an "original" knowledge system regarding the history of its border regions to mitigate security risks from "hostile forces in the West", according to a senior scholar at a ...

Bowditch & Dewey, a Worcester law firm dating to 1914, will merge with Kenney & Sams, a Boston-based firm started 20 years ago. The merger is slated to take effect Jan. 1, with the combined firms to ...

Sherry Preston: Are you curious about the Dewey Decimal system? The Dewey Decimal system was designed to organize library books by putting a number on the book spine. Sherry Preston is the public ...

It is the 174th birthday of Melvil Dewey, the man who created the Dewey Decimal System, and was responsible more than any other person for the creation and promotion of the field of Library Science in ...

Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media. By Christine Chung Travelers visiting the United States ...

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Melvil Dewey made huge contributions to the library world during his life. In 1876, while he was a student at Amhurst, Dewey started a library product and furniture business called the Library Bureau.

Did you know that Dec. 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day? Me neither. Born on Dec. 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey is the librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. And in an age ...