If you’re wondering how students are responding to the Dewey-less library in Gilbert, AZ, now that everyone’s back at school, there’s not much to say because no one really notices. “Students don’t seem to care or know the difference,” says Jennifer Miele, manager of the Perry Branch Library, part of the Maricopa County Library District in Arizona, which decided to ditch Dewey when it opened its doors last June. Librarians across the country were up in arms about the new library adopting a bookstore-like shelving system. And they were equally concerned about how the kids at Perry High School, which uses the public library as its media center, would react to the change. But so far, there have been no complaints. “To be honest, I’m not sure these freshmen and sophomores really encountered Dewey before, so we haven’t had any comments,” says Miele. Although school officially started on July 23, Allison Burke, who has the dual role of media specialist and young adult librarian, just began giving library orientation this week. Although Burke points out the library’s new system of shelving its entire 31,000-item collection by topic and alphabetizing by authors' last names, the kids are more interested in the fact that the library allows food and drinks and that it has its own semi-private Teen Oasis section, equipped with red and purple velvet lounge chairs and lots of computers. “It’s a whole new world to them,” Miele adds. Getting rid of Dewey was a bold but much-needed step to make the library as "customer-service friendly as possible" and to attract more kids and the 20- to 40-year-old crowd, explained Marshall Shore, the library system’s coordinator for adult services. The library is certainly drawing in more teens. “Every week we see more high school kids,” says Miele, adding that they’re taking advantage of after-school programs and that the library is open at 7:30 a.m. for students. Miele does admit, however, that getting rid of Dewey was easier for her 28,000-square-foot library because it’s smaller than most. She also says that it may be too early to tell if more complaints will start piling up once research project season gets in full gear. But for now, students really enjoy browsing the easy-to-read signage and low bookshelves. And that leaves library staffers more time to ponder other brave initiatives that students are leaving in the suggestion box—like having music piped in throughout the whole library, Miele says.