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Melvil Dewey, American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System (died 1931)
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Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey was an American librarian and educator who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. He was a founder of the Lake Placid Club, a chief librarian at Columbia College, founder of what would later become the Columbia…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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