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FOUR CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES FOR LIBRARIES

This page was inspired by the "system of organization column" at <<http://www.wam.umd.edu/~aubrycp/project/jeopardy.html>>, a "Library Science Jeopardy"-type quiz that gave the following four "answers" while asking for the "questions".

A. This hybrid schema draws upon Francis Bacon, Charles A. Cutter, and a founding father of the United States.
Q. What is the Library of Congress Classification?

A. Although critically heralded as perhaps the best classification of all time, BC was developed too late(1935-1953) to be implemented.
Q. What is the bibliographic classification?

A. The last classification scheme designed by one person and actually used in libraries.
Q. What is Colon Classification?

A. (not given)
Q. What is the Dewey Decimal Classification?