In case you’re too old to remember or too young to care, the Dewey Decimal System introduced the concepts of relative location and relative index, which allow new books to be added to a library in their appropriate location based on the subject. Without his system of cataloging books, none of us would have ever found the information we needed, and thusly would have never graduated high school. Thank goodness that Melvin Dewey developed his Dewey Decimal Classification system in 1876.
They had to search through all those never-ending racks of books and turning tens-of-thousands of pages – oh, and the paper cuts.
Long before Google, students actually had to go to a library – those places with lots of books – to research information.
