Melvil Dewey
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The Category of Pretend: A Conversation with Makenna Goodman and Brian Gresko
Who am I and where do I go from here?
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MLS vs. NYC
Former librarian Michelle Anne Schingler is tired of people questioning her credentials. At Book Riot, she argues that an MLS isn’t required for the most important parts of a librarian’s job: Library theory isn’t at the fore when you’re helping…
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Famous Librarian Also Famous Jerk
Melvil Dewey: inventor of the Dewey decimal system, godfather of modern library science, and…sexist jerk? According to this Bitch blog post, Dewey helped open the field of librarianship to women by allowing them into his classes at Columbia’s library school, but…