Back when I was in college and grad school, we still used microfiche and the Dewey Decimal System.

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Academia Barilla's many American students head first for books on American cooking, says Giancarlo Gonizzi, the librarian who classified its contents along the lines of the Dewey decimal system to help users find their way around.

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In 1851, American librarian Melvil Dewey, who devised the system of classification for library cataloguing, was born.

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When I made this proposal, only slightly facetiously, in a roomful of self-described education entrepreneurs, it was if I'd said that Dewey had plagiarized his decimal system.

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