
Re-Sorting the Shelves: A Look at Bias In the Dewey Decimal System
From On the Media
Published 11/9/2022

From On the Media
Published 11/9/2022
Jess deCourcy Hinds is the solo librarian at the Bard High School, Early College library in Queens, New York. In 2010, she received a new order of books about the civil rights movement, but Hinds noticed something strange: all of the books had Dewey Decimal numbers in the 300s, meaning they were…