{"id":3312,"date":"2018-01-10T16:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T23:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:58:59","slug":"melvil-dewey-harvey-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2018\/01\/10\/melvil-dewey-harvey-weinstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvil Dewey \/ Harvey Weinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/the-father-of-modern-libraries-was-a-serial-sexual-harasser\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3313\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/01\/modifiedgrid.jpg\" alt=\"modifiedgrid\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/01\/modifiedgrid.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/01\/modifiedgrid-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/01\/modifiedgrid-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/01\/modifiedgrid-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/01\/modifiedgrid-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a>(Original grid, before my modification, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/10\/25\/us\/list-of-accused-after-weinstein-scandal-trnd\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>; portrait of Dewey from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/aba\/dewey\/about-dewey.html\">Library of Congress<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Goddammit. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/the-father-of-modern-libraries-was-a-serial-sexual-harasser\">this article<\/a> by Erin Blakemore, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System benefited from a system he didn&#8217;t invent, the system of patriarchy, in the exact same way that Harvey Weinstein does. That is, he was a serial sexual harasser of women, taking advantage of his professional position to, well, take advantage of the women he met through that profession. &#8220;Shenanigans&#8221; isn&#8217;t a strong enough word to describe this behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks (or more like the opposite of thanks), <a href=\"http:\/\/waitingforhungry.blogspot.com\/\">David Weinstock<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Original grid, before my modification, from CNN; portrait of Dewey from the Library of Congress) Goddammit. According to this article by Erin Blakemore, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System benefited from a system he didn&#8217;t invent, the system of patriarchy, in the exact same way that Harvey Weinstein does. That is, he was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Rq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}