When the history of business in the 1980s is finally written, it will be so studded with hostile takeovers and multibillion-dollar corporate buyouts that the most interesting takeover deal of them all ...

ALBANY — A century after Melvil Dewey called Albany and the State Library home, the city's newest public libraries are poised to abandon his famous decimals. The shift starts next month at the ...

Melvil Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was born on December 10, 1851. Among other things, Dewey was a self-proclaimed reformer, so when working for the Amherst College library in the ...

The Gwinnett County Public Libraries will be closed through Wednesday due to a major book reclassification that will replace the 144-year-old Dewey Decimal Classification system with more ...

If your life had a Dewey decimal number, Laura Raphael could probably find your story on a library bookshelf faster than a book-borrower trying to beat closing time. But it hasn't been easy for this ...