Sentence examples for Dewey system from inspiring English sources

The fifth floor (like the 500s of the Dewey system) is dedicated to math and science, so guest room 506, for example, contains books on astronomy.

He said Mr. Kallan finally responded with a phone call, refusing to give the group credit or stop using the Dewey system in his marketing.

Each floor in the hotel is dedicated to one of the major categories of the Dewey system, including technology, religion and history, and the designation of each floor is projected onto the wall facing the elevators.

Each floor is devoted to one of the 10 main categories of knowledge in the Dewey system: Social Sciences, Languages, Math and Science, Technology, the Arts, Literature, History and Geography, General Knowledge, Philosophy and Religion.

Based on W.T. Harris' classification for the St . Louis Public Library the Dewey system was first formulated by the American librarian Melvil Dewey in 1873 for application in the Amherst College Library.

The Dewey system's numerical classification provides a shorthand identification and location tool.

They set up orderly systems, like the Dewey decimal system or a school curriculum.

Whether they sort their books alphabetically, with the Dewey decimal system, or the Library of Congress system, all libraries agree on one thing: I should have finished my tuna-fish sandwich outside.

She may appear to be the archetypal political wife, who married into a Republican dynasty (George Bush senior is "ganny" even when meeting with President Mitterrand) but she was a 30-year-old librarian, living alone with a cat called Dewey (named after the Dewey Decimal System), her friends already married off, and whose first love was literature, by the time she met George.

He invented the Dewey decimal system, which revolutionized the organization of libraries.

The Dewey Decimal System, by Nathan Larson, and the sequel, The Nervous System, are inventive riffs on the hard-boiled detective genre.