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9. Georges Lorphevre to John Metcalfe, 3 April 1950, Otletaneuon.
10. Quoted by John Phillip Comeromi, A History of the Dewey Decimal
Classification: editions one through fifteen, 1876—1951 (Unpublished
Ph. D. dissertation, Department of Library Science, University of Michigan,
1969), pp. 228—229. The copies of early letters to and from Dewey
are missing from the files in the Mundaneum in Brussels.
11. The Library Bureau was organised by Melvil Dewey in the 1880s after
a similar venture which had had an initial success and had then declined.
It was taken over by H. E. Davidson and a colleague, Dewey retaining
a large holding in the company, and became a thriving business
dealing not only with library equipment but later and to a larger extent,
with office equipment, supplies and methods generally. (Fremont Rider,
Melvil Dewey, Chicago, American Library Association, 1944).
Cedric Olivers, 1854—1924, was most noted as a commercial book
binder who developed a new method of stitching. ,He operated a large
factory in Bath and opened an American factory in 1905. He was well
known in the United States. He was supposed to have crossed the
Atlantic 120 times in the course of his life and to have been in more
public libraries there than any other man. Towards the end of his life
he was Mayor of Bath for six terms. His connection with the Library
Bureau and its agency in London is rather obscure and only very scattered
information is available on him.
L2. The first six expansions of Charles Ami Cutter's Expansive Classification
were published between 1891 and 1893. The seventh expansion,
about which. Otlet and La Fontaine were curious, was intended for
extremely large collections, ilt was issued in parts, but Cutter died (1903)
before it was completed.
Frederic B. Perkins, 1829—1899, published a Rational Classification of
Literature for Shelving and Cataloging Books in a Library in 1881. He
devised this classification owing to his dissatisfaction with Dewey's system
which he had found in use at the San Francisco Public Library
which he joined as Librarian in 1880. He had had previous library experience
at the Boston Public Library.
See also various letters ,from Chivers to Otlet and La Fontaine for
the period from 5 March 1895 to July 1895 — Dossier No. 239, ^Library
Bureau. Boston—Londres», Mundaneum.
13. H. La Fontaine and Paul Otlet, Sur la creation d'un repertoire bibliographique
universel: note. Conference Bibliographique Internationale,
Bruxelles 1895. Documents (Bruxelles, 1895), p. 7.
14. Ibid., p. 16. Otlet and La Fontaine are here referring to a scheme developed
for a bibliography of mathematics by the Societe Mathematique
de France and adopted in 1889.
15. Ibid., pp. 18—19.
16. Ibid., p. 20.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., p. 28.
20. Ibid., p. 5.
21. The first fascicule of the Bulletin of the International Institute of Bibliography
reproduces Otlet and La Fontaine's note «On the creation
of a universal bibliographic repertory*. The title is altered and it is
stated that the question of bibliography had been under study in Brussels
for 6 years (not 3), and the number of notices classified by Dewey
for the conference was 400,000 (not 200,000).