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..
Hereâs what we found in our quest for the truth: The Library Company of Burlington, New Jersey was founded by 60 men in November of 1757. They petitioned his majesty King George II to grant them a license to operate a business and the charter was received on January 1, 1758.he Library Company of Philadelphia, founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin and a group of his friends, became the first American subscription library. The Library Company, while founded as a membership library, did allow members to borrow books, and so may have been the first truly public library.