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Here’s to Libraries, large & small, on Dewey Decimal System Day!

The inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, Melvil Dewey, was born on December 10, 1851.

WPA Library bookmobile

Taos County, New Mexico. Children crowd into the Harwood Branch Library after school at Ranchos.

The lion statues at the New York Public Library, with a mantle of snow during the record December 1948 snowfall, 12/1948

Bookmobile, pop-up or marble colossus, what’s your favorite Library?

Source: research.archives.gov

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    • #library
    • #literacy
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  14. raghs answered: My own library. It has a magnificant collection of wonderful books which made my life worth living and interesting.
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    Awesome stuff. My life definitely would not not be the same without libraries. They were the stuff of my childhood.
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    My favorite libraries: Vassar (obvs) Fayetteville (also obvs)
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