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library classification

  • TITLE: library
    SECTION: The Bliss system
    Although not widely used, the bibliographic classification system invented by Henry E. Bliss of the College of the City of New York (published in 1935 as A System of Bibliographic Classification) has made important contributions to the theory of classification, particularly in Bliss’s acute perception of the role of synthesis and his insistence that a library scheme should reflect the...

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