Exploring new approaches to the organization of knowledge: the subject classification of James Duff Brown.
From: Library Trends
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Date: 3/22/2004
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Author: Beghtol, Clare
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 ...
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