JUST DEWEY

     I thought it would be nice to extract Melvil from the comic I just did and make him his own thing, so I could use it later somehow. So here's just the portrait of Melvil. Actually, he was born "Melville Dewey," but changed it to "Melvil," and then even preferred spelling his last name "Dui," because he was super into phonetic spelling. Kind of a freak.

SMELLS LIKE LIBRARY (the comic)

LIBRARY LEARNIN': SMELLVILLE

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DEWEY AT THE WORLD'S FAIR, 1893

     I've been reading The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson's engrossing nonfiction book about the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and the murders that took place in conjunction with it. This morning I came across this line:

Visitors also encountered the latest and arguably most important organizational invention of the century, the vertical file, created by Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System.

     When I read that I actually GASPED ALOUD, and immediately turned the corner of the page down, so I wouldn't forget where to find it. I am such a nerd.