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Biography of Melvil Dewey>
Melvil Dewey(born Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey) was born on December 10, 1851 from a poor family in the upper New York state. As an adult he dropped his middle names and his name was now Melvil Dewey. He is famous for creating the Dewey Decimal System or the Dewey Decimal Classification. He created it when he was 21 working as a library assistant in Amherst College. His work created the revolution in library sciences and he well deserves the name of " Father Of Modern Librarianship". He changed it to a modern profession instead of a vocation. He also helped establish the American Library Association in 1876. He also helped find and edit the Library Journal. Plus, Dewey also formed a company to sell library supplies which is now Library Bureau today. Dewey also was the librarian of Columbia College, which is now Columbia University in 1883. Melvil Dewey died after having a stroke at age 80 on December 26, 1931. 70 years after his death, he is still known for creating the Dewey Decimal System, the most widely used library classification scheme in the world. []