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The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Melvil Dewey

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Melvil Dewey
Age: 80 †
Born: 1851
Born: December 10
Died: 1931
Died: December 26
Journalist
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Adams Center
New York
Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey
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