Melvil Dewey is a library icon. So why did librarians remove his name from one of their most prestigious awards?In June, the American Library Association stripped a familiar name from one of its top leadership honors: the Melvil Dewey Medal. As you may recall from grade school, Dewey was the man behind the Dewey Decimal Classification system, the schema of… Sep 27 19September 27, 2019Article at Slate Magazine
