Posts Tagged ‘Melvil Dewey’
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Master D Gets Down and Dirty
0July 19, 2011 by Reader's Connection
The Dewey Decimal System 600´s include medicine, cooking, metallurgy, engineering, and perhaps most importantly, air conditioning. I´m going with agriculture. The 000′s: Generalities The Amazon and the Blue Hotel The…
Category Book Review | Tags: Dewey Decimal System, Kristin Kimball, Melvil Dewey, The Dirty Life: On Farming Food and Love
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Master D Reaches for the Stars
1June 9, 2011 by Reader's Connection
My thoughts leading up to this blogpost: “The 500´s! Which natural science should I tackle? I did a post on physics a couple of years ago, and after rereading it I´m…
Category Book Review | Tags: A Grand and Bold Thing: An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering in a New Era of Discovery, Ann Finkbeiner, Dewey Decimal System, Melvil Dewey, Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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Through the Year with Master D: Philosophy
1January 4, 2011 by Reader's Connection
If not for Melvil Dewey, we would be shelving each book according to its color or odor, or the average number of IQ points that library patrons have lost while reading it.…
Category Book Review | Tags: Dewey Decimal System, Melvil Dewey, Michael Kellogg, Three Questions We Never Stop Asking
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It´s Dewey Day!
0December 10, 2009 by Reader's Connection
Melvil Dewey, creator of the Dewey Decimal System that our library uses to organize its nonfiction books, was born on December 10th, 1851. In his memory, here´s a bouquet of ten…
Category Booklist | Tags: Dewey Decimal System, Melvil Dewey