Dewey and the Catalog

The best place to look for the collected works of John Dewy is on Apple Books, which has an essential nine volume set available totally for free. The local library no longer displays a poster detailing the locations of subjects by numerical classification, and a several other things have changed. One is that with the withdrawal of the microfilm readers and the introduction of computer terminal catalogs, it's no longer possible just to sit down and search alphabetically by title for books. It's important to remember, however, in the technical part of secretarial proctoring in the publicly funded library, that John Dewey didn't actually invent the library card catalog. His works on public education define lawful parameters for collections and adult level collations, and he did not (alas) originate alphabetization or decimal fractions. You also have to bear in mind for legal purposes that the libraries were never meant to be a substitute for the schools, in fact they're not even tax funded as an attachment or supplement to schools learning, they are funded for general reference, mentioning that an all-around citizen is understood to need access to both literary and professional books as well as technical manuals as needed, knowing that all needs arise in all walks of life across the board. Dewey was the kind of lawyer who would have addressed you on "free speech and morals" in a beginning rational survey of the first amendment, a bit like Alan M. Dershowitz, really.