I love my library. I love the people in my library. I love the books in my library. I love the audiobooks in my library. I love the magazines. I love the movies, the services, the access to Internet.
I love the way that when you want a book and they don’t have it, they reach out to other libraries to see if it is available. I live in Duluth, but sometimes I have borrowed a book that was originally in Louisiana.
Andrew Carnegie built 65 public libraries in Minnesota at the turn of the last century up through World War I. Ours was begun in 1899. What a great gift to any community.
Information is power, but if you can’t find the info you’re looking for you’re pretty powerless. This is why the Dewey Decimal System was created.
Did you know the Dewey Decimal System was not created by John Dewey? For some reason I’d always assumed it was John Dewey because he was an influential progressive involved in educational and social reform during the first half of the 20th century. And, of course, because his name was Dewey.
The correct answer is Melvil Dewey (1851–1931). Melvil (birth name Melville Louis Kossuth…
