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Drobnicki, John A. – 1996
This paper discusses the career of Henry Evelyn Bliss, founder of the Bibliographic Classification, which is currently being revised. Dissatisfied with the current classification systems, Bliss devised his own, which was based on a main class order that provided for collocation of related classes. Although not currently used in the United States,…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Classification, Foreign Countries, History