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Author
Beghtol, C.
Title
Exploring new approaches to the organization of knowledge : the subject classification of James Duff Brown
Source
Library trends. 52(2004) no.4, S.702-718
Year
2004
Abstract
James Duff Brown was an influential and energetic librarian in Great Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His Subject Classification has characteristics that were unusual and idiosyncratic during his own time, but his work deserves recognition as one of the precursors of modern bibliographic classification systems. This article discusses a number of theories and classification practices that Brown developed. In particular, it investigates his views on the order of main classes, on the phenomenon of "concrete" subjects, and on the need for synthesized notations. It traces these ideas briefly into the future through the work of S. R. Ranganathan, the Classification Research Group, and the second edition of the Bliss Bibliographic Classification system. It concludes that Brown's work warrants further study for the light it may shed on current classification theory and practice.
Footnote
Beitrag in einem Themenheft: Pioneers in library and information science
Theme
Geschichte der Klassifikationssysteme
Location
GB

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