Charles Cutter
Charles Ammi Cutter (born March 14, 1837 in Boston , Massachusetts , USA ; † September 6, 1903 in Walpole , New Hampshire , USA) was an American librarian .
Charles Cutter graduated from Harvard University , where he also worked in the library. In 1868 he became a librarian at the Boston Athenæum. In 1876 he was a co-founder of the American Library Association (ALA).
Cutter worked in the field of library systematics and designed a classification system named after him ("Cutter Expansive Classification") as well as, together with his colleague Kate Emery Sanborn, a new method for creating signatures, the so-called Cutter-Sanborn Author Table or Cutter-Sanborn Notation ( also called "cutter numbers").
bibliography
- Charles Cutter, Kate E. Sanborn: Three-figure author table . Huntting, Chicopee 1969.
literature
- Francis L. Miksa (Ed.): Charles Ammi Cutter, Library Systematizer (= The Heritage of Librarianship Series. 3). Libraries Unlimited, Littleton CO 1977, ISBN 0-87287-112-6 .
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SURNAME | Cutter, Charles |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cutter, Charles Ammi (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American librarian |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1837 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts , USA |
DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1903 |
Place of death | Walpole , New Hampshire , USA |