When was library of congress classification system developed

Hanson as the developer of the LCC. Library of Congress Classification, the scheme of bibliographic classification drawn up by Herbert Putnam in Herbert Putnam, born Sept. American librarian who built the Library of Congress into a world-renowned institution. Putnam graduated from Harvard in and thereafter studied law at Columbia University, being admitted to the bar in His true calling was as a librarian, however. He served as librarian of the Minneapolis Athenaeum in —87 and of the Minneapolis Public Library in — After a few years practicing law in Boston —95 , he served as librarian of the Boston Public Library from to In the latter year he was appointed librarian of the Library of Congress, and he retained this position until Putnam was primarily responsible for transforming the Library of Congress from what was little more than a reference collection for congressmen into one of the great national libraries of the world.

Many of these practices were eventually adopted by other national libraries. Putnam also served as president of the American Library Association in and Powered by. Badges Report an Issue Terms of Service.

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Sandip is attending Pradip Kumar Nikhandia's event. All Forum My Forum Add. The first Law schedule—the Law of United States, was published in , and the last of the Law schedules to publish was KB—Religious law, which appeared in From the beginning, individual schedules of LCC have been developed and maintained by subject experts.

Such experts continue to be responsible for additions and changes in LCC. Until the early s, LCC schedules existed mainly as a print product. The conversion of LCC to machine-readable form began in and was completed in This was a very important development for LCC, as it enabled LCC to be consulted online and much more efficient production of the print schedules.

In the year , the Library of Congress announced a transition to online-only publication of its cataloging documentation, including the Library of Congress Classification. It supports searching and browsing of the LCC schedules and provides links to the respective tables to build the class numbers for library resources. LC has also developed training materials on the principles and practices of LCC and made those available for free on its website.

Facebook Twitter. Responsibility for developing the schedules and classifying materials was assigned to the new Subject Cataloging Division, which also took on the other task of subject analysis, that of creating and assigning subject headings.

In the responsibility for preparing and publishing the schedules and for providing policy guidance was transferred to the Office for Subject Cataloging Policy when that office was separated from the Subject Cataloging Division. Under a reorganization of cataloging at the Library of Congress, these responsibilities were absorbed into the newly created Cataloging Policy and Support Office. The original organization of the classification was according to broad disciplines as seen a century ago.

Since interdisciplinary topics were difficult to accommodate in this system, many arbitrary choices have been made over the years. Each schedule was developed separately, following its own internal logic. The order of topics, types of captions, level of detail, form of notes, etc. As a result, each schedule has unique features, and it is difficult to generalize about the schedules as a whole.