Irrepressible Reformer

Irrepressible Reformer
Author: Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1996-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780838906804

Drawing from years of archival research, preeminent Melvil Dewey historian Wayne A. Wiegand has produced the first frank and comprehensive biography of this enigmatic reformer. While providing richer background on Dewey's positive achievements than earlier, reverential biographies, Wiegand reveals his subject as one who was "driven, tense, often arrogant," who had "an obsessive need to control...and self-righteously denied his own racism and class prejudices.".

Melvil Dewey

Melvil Dewey
Author: Jill Sherman
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781604537611

Profiles the librarian best known for his invention of the Dewey Decimal Classification system.

The New Woman as Librarian

The New Woman as Librarian
Author: Clare Beck
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2006-08-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1461673348

At the time of her death, it seemed that Adelaide Hasse would simply pass from memory and be forgotten. However, by the turn of the century, American Libraries would sanctify her as one of its hundred library leaders of the twentieth century, one of only thirty women given this honor.

Do You Know Dewey?

Do You Know Dewey?
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2013
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761366768

Introduces readers to the Dewey decimal system.

Bob the Alien Discovers the Dewey Decimal System

Bob the Alien Discovers the Dewey Decimal System
Author: Sandy Donovan
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1404857575

Bob is from planet Plainold, where they have just discovered spiders. But planet Plainold doesn't have books, so Bob has traveled to Earth to find books about spiders. Join Allison Wonderland as she teaches Bob how to use the Dewey Decimal System to find books about spiders and much more!

Dewey

Dewey
Author: Vicki Myron
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2008-09-24
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 0446542202

Experience the uplifting, "unforgettable" New York Times bestseller about an abandoned kitten named Dewey, whose life in a library won over a farming town and the world -- with over 2 million copies sold! (Booklist) Dewey's story starts in the worst possible way. On the coldest night of the year in Spencer, Iowa, at only a few weeks old--a critical age for kittens--he was stuffed into the return book slot of the Spencer Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff, by pulling himself up and hobbling on frostbitten feet to nudge each of them in a gesture of thanks and love. For the next nineteen years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer with his enthusiasm, warmth, humility (for a cat), and, above all, his sixth sense about who needed him most. As his fame grew from town to town, then state to state and finally, amazingly, worldwide, Dewey became more than just a friend; he became a source of pride for an extraordinary Heartland farming community slowly working its way back from the greatest crisis in its long history.

The Great Dewey Hunt

The Great Dewey Hunt
Author: Toni Buzzeo
Publisher: Upstart Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Classification, Dewey decimal
ISBN: 9781602130296

Twins Hugh and Louis Abernathy take the lead when their fourth grade class hosts Mr. Hester's second grade class for Mrs. Skorupski's Great Dewey Hunt.