
Letter: Cutter on changing the letters in his classification to numbers.
You have to be careful what you mean when you talk about "Cutter Classification." The system used at the Boston Athenaeum is a classification system designed by Cutter, but it is not the Cutter Expansive Classification system. It is little more than a prototype where he worked out his ideas long before the first schedules of the Expansive Classification were published.
And as for the wikipedia article, it has its problems as well. Until it is corrected I'd recommend looking elsewhere.
Yeah, I know. That's really the whole problem with Cutter. Even among the libraries that used it, there was no central organization, so there's basically one system per library now.
I read the Conrad paper, and had a long talk with him about it.
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