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Librarians measure books in centimeters because Melville Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system and a New Yorker, was a francophile. We measure VHS, CD, and DVD containers in inches because Dewey was dead when they were invented Unless you’re in this profession there’s no reason to know this, but Dewey was a long, strangeContinueContinue reading “6: Cataloging fact #1”