The New York Library Association Rule Book

Dewey created the Dewey Decimal system in his early 20s, now he's in his 50s. He buys a private club in the Adirondacks where Jews and black people were forbidden to be members. The rules noted no one shall be received as a member or guest against whom there is physical, moral, social or race objection. It is found impracticable to make exceptions to Jews or others excluded, even when of unusual personal qualifications. This came to an end in a rather spectacular fashion in 1903. A friend of Henry Leipzigger, a Jewish member of the New York Library Association Circulation Committee, read the pamphlet and discovered the language forbidding racial