Tag: dewey decimal system
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Racism in the Dewey Decimal System
When books about President Barack Obama arrived at the Bard High School, Early College library in Queens, New York, they were coded as 300 (Social Science) instead of 900 (History). Librarian Jess deCourcy Hinds raised what she thought was an obvious question: Why isn’t the President of the United States listed as history? Well, the…