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Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. December 1851 – 26. December 1931
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Famous Melvil Dewey Quotes

“The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.”

Melvil Dewey

"The Relation of the State to the Public Library", (1889)

“To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.”

Melvil Dewey

“The cheapness and quickness of modern methods of communication has been like a growth of wings, so that a thousand things which were thought to belong like trees in one place may travel about like birds.”

Melvil Dewey

"Field and Future of Traveling Libraries". Home Education Department. Bulletin. State University of New York (1901), (40).

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