Deweyless

In 2007 the Maricopa County Library District (AZ) opened its first Deweyless Branch library in Gilbert. The Perry Branch, located on a high school campus, was the District's first effort to find a better way to make it easier for customers to browse and locate materials of interest. In previous surveys of customers the District found that close to 85% of users came to the library without a specific title in mind but to browse the collection.

Since this branch opened, it and the topic of Deweyless has received considerable discussion in library publications, blogs etc. as well as national attention in national media sources. The District has had hundreds of visitors from all over the country and some outside the US to see and talk about the District service concept of which Deweyless is a part.

As of 2011 the District has converted or opened new nine (9)branches that are Deweyless.