1959: The role of classification in the modern American library

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no.6, 1959); Edited by F. Thelma Eaton and Donald E. Strout

This institute was addressed to those librarians who have a deep interest in the whole field of classification and the program was planned to present a broad picture of classification today.

The complete text of the Institute is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

• The Administrator Looks at Classification - Robert B. Downs
• The Development of Classification in America - Thelma Eaton
• Classification Today Shadow or Substance - Mortimer Taube
• The Classified Catalogue as an Aid to Research - Herman H. Henkle
• Classification for the Reader - Ruth Rutzen
• The Enduring Qualities of Dewey - Heartsill H. Young
• Library of Congress Classification for the Academic Library - Irene M. Doyle
• One Mathematician Looks at the Classification of Mathematics - Robert G. Bartle
• Classification in a Special Library - Isabel Howell
• What Lies Ahead in Classification - Jesse H. Shera
• Summary - Donald E. Strout
  

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