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Salome (c.1876) - Gustave Moreau (detail)
Dewey Decimal System introduced
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC, also called the Dewey Decimal System) is a system of library classification developed by Melvil Dewey in 1876, and since greatly modified and expanded in the course of the twenty-two major revisions, the most recent in 2004. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Decimal_Classification [Feb 2006]
See also: library - classification
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