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Which university did Melvil Dewey serve as a chief librarian?

  • Columbia University

  • Harvard University

  • Yale University

  • Princeton University

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Melvil Dewey served as the chief librarian at Columbia University. During his time there, he developed the Dewey Decimal System, which revolutionized the way libraries organized and cataloged their collections.
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