the Dewey system was made by melvil Dewey in insperation of his late grandfather. he was a very clean man but did no know the was to sort his books. so he came up with a system to catorgarize his books. he then wanted to make it more precise so he came up with the decimal system so he could catorgarize them to small amounts.
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Dewey published A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library in 1876. He had developed it while working in the library at Amherst College. It was published at Amherst. Lydenberg, H.M. Dewey, Melvil. Dictionary of American Biography. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. Supplement I; pp.241-243.
It was created in 1876 by Melvil Dewey, and has been through 22 major revisions. The latest being in 2003.
The Dewey Decimal System was invented by Melvil Dewey in 1876 in Amherst, Massachusetts. It is a classification system used to organize library materials by subject.