The Man Who Pioneered Libraries and Sexual Harassment

Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus to discuss John Dewey.

FOOTNOTES;

1. https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/09/melvil-dewey-american-libraryassociation-award-name-change.html 
2. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/06/01/melvil-dewey-bringingharassment-out-of-the-history-books/
3. https://bookriot.com/life-of-melvil-dewey/
4. https://bookriot.com/racism-in-the-dewey-decimal-system/
5. https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2020/11/melvil-dewey-efficient-inventive-annoying-racistsexist/
6. https://www.history.com/news/the-father-of-modern-libraries-was-a-serial-sexualharasser
7. https://daily.jstor.org/melvil-deweys-attempt-at-a-spelling-revolution/ 
8. https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/melvil-dewey-the-womanizing-ocdlibrarian-who-organized-the-olympics/
9. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2014/03/24/melvil-dewey-compulsiveinnovator/
10. https://web.archive.org/web/20081010135016/www.hwwilson.com/databases/PDFsample/WLB/dewey.pdf
11. https://doi.org/10.5406/pluralist.7.3.0096
12. http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2019/07/the-progressive-feminist-whofounded.html?m=1

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