Kate Emery Sanborn

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Kate Emery Sanborn , later Jones, (* 1860 in the USA ; † unknown) was an American librarian. Sanborn worked from 1883 to 1891 as an assistant to Charles Cutter in the Boston Athenæum . She then moved to St. Louis as a cataloger at the Mercantile Library . There she was commissioned by Charles Cutter in 1892 to expand the first version of the Cutter table. Versions of their classification known as the Cutter-Sanborn notation are still in use today.

literature

  • Charles Cutter, Kate E. Sanborn: Three-figure author table . Huntting, Chicopee 1969.
  • Mohinder Partap Satija: History of Book Numbers. In International Classification , published by the International Society for Knowledge Organization , No. 2, Volume 14, 1987, pp. 70-76.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mohinder Partap Satija: History of Book Numbers . In: International Society for Knowledge Organization (Ed.): International Classification . tape 14 , no. 2 , 1987, pp. 71 ( ergon-verlag.de [PDF]).
personal data
SURNAME Sanborn, Kate Emery
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American librarian
DATE OF BIRTH 1860
DATE OF DEATH 19th century or 20th century