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The Decimal Office: Administration as a Science in the Netherlands in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century

van den Heuvel, Charles

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Title
The Decimal Office: Administration as a Science in the Netherlands in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century
Author(s)
van den Heuvel, Charles
Issue Date
2013
Keyword(s)
  • Classification, Dewey decimal
  • The Netherlands
Abstract
In 1983 Boyd Rayward described the early diffusion abroad of the Dewey Decimal Classification (and indirectly of the Universal Decimal Classification) in Australia, Great Britain, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Russia. Here, I discuss the enormous interest in the decimal system in the Netherlands that went far beyond its original role for the classification of bibliographic knowledge. I will present Johan Zaalberg (1858–1934) and Ernst Hijmans (1890–1987) as two advocates for the use of the decimal system in the administration of public organizations and private companies and its role in the development of scientific management in the Netherlands.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
1559-0682
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/49310
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2013.0042
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Copyright 2013 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 62 (2) Fall 2013: Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part 1 PRIMARY
Library Trends 62 (2) Fall 2013: Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part 1. Edited by Alistair Black and Charles van den Heuvel.