Really shocking!
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:52 PM madhan muthu
Down With Dewey
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 numbers and subject areas used at libraries around the world to categorize books. Founder of the nation’s first library school, co-founder of the ALA itself, and onetime director of the New York State Library, he’s usually revered as a library icon, his name perhaps the one most strongly associated with the institution. So what drove librarians to erase it from their own award?
https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/09/melvil-dewey-american-library-assoc...
-- Madhan, M