To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.

1887 Library notes: improved methods and labor-savers for librarians readers and writers. Under his leadership the Northwood School (Lake Placid New York) prospered. 1904 A.

Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey (December 10 1851 – December 26 1931) was an American librarian and educator inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification and a founder of the Lake Placid Club.