The roots and traditions of the Library of Congress of the United States are firmly embedded in eighteenth-century European ideals and practices, but specific to what was to become the United States.

Did you know that Dec. 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day? Me neither. Born on Dec. 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey is the librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. And in an age ...

THE interesting library classification code set forth in this book by the Librarian of the University of Madras differs from others in that instead of showing a class subdivision for every topic, the ...

When S.R. Ranganathan, born in Siyali (now Sirkazhi) in Mayiladuthurai district in 1892, finished post-graduation and took up teaching of mathematics, he must not have realised that he would be ...