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Topic:  About Cutter...a reading list 0 / 8 read
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Dec 14, 2006, 5:34am (top)Message 1: amandaellis

Dec 14, 2006, 7:57am (top)Message 2: timspalding

Google Books:

Rules for a Dictionary Catalog
How to Get Books, with an explanation of the new way of marking books (1882)

The schedules aren't scanned yet, I think. More later, after coffee.

Dec 14, 2006, 9:35am (top)Message 3: sunny

Letter: Cutter on changing the letters in his classification to numbers.

Jan 9, 2007, 9:30am (top)Message 4: kiwimac

You might also try:

http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/cuttergui...

and

http://www.forbeslibrary.org/books/cutte...

For very quick outlines of Cutter Classification as used by these two libraries

Dec 15, 2007, 7:40pm (top)Message 5: bkalish

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.

Dec 15, 2007, 8:48pm (top)Message 6: timspalding

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.

Dec 16, 2007, 1:48pm (top)Message 7: bkalish

I recently wrote a paper for a class on this very topic. I've put up an html version:

http://web.simmons.edu/~kalish2/cutter/o...

Dec 16, 2007, 3:14pm (top)Message 8: timspalding

I read the Conrad paper, and had a long talk with him about it.

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