It has been an ongoing joke that Leonardo DiCaprio has never won an Oscar, but I'd like to think that they only joke about it because it's surprising, not because it hasn't been well-deserved. Although, the joke could come to an end in 2016 if DiCaprio wins the Academy Award for his work in The Revenant.
Dewey invented the Dewey Decimal Classification Â® (DDC) system when he was 21 and working as a student assistant in the library of Amherst College.His work created a revolution in library science and set in motion a new era of librarianship.Melvil Dewey well deserves the title of Father of Modern Librarianship..ewey invented the Dewey Decimal Classification Â® (DDC) system when he was 21 and working as a student assistant in the library of Amherst College. His work created a revolution in library science and set in motion a new era of librarianship. Melvil Dewey well deserves the title of Father of Modern Librarianship..
The classification system is used in 200,000 libraries in at least 135 countries. The major competing classification system to the Dewey Decimal system is the Library of Congress Classification system created by the U.S. Library of Congress.t also reduced the size of the Dewey system by over half, from 1,900 to 700 pages, a revision so radical that Ferguson was removed from the editorship for the next edition. The 16th and 17th editions, under the editorship of the Library of Congress, grew again to two volumes.