Melvil Dewey was born on this date in 1851. You know — Dewey, as in Dewey decimal system.
Read Dewey’s obituary in 1931 from The New York Times.
Here’s a website that seems to be the Dewey Decimal Classification headquarters.
Oh, and here’s 025.431: The Dewey blog.
NewMexiKen has been considering jettisoning the Categories for this blog and replacing them with a classification scheme. I’d probably use the Library of Congress system, though. Sorry, Melvil.