About Melvil Dewey: Melville Louis Kossuth was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club.
The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.
A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.
