Jeremy Norman’sHistoryofInformation.com Exploring the History of Information and Media through Timelines
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In 1897, before he was appointed Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, with the assistance of Charles Ammi Cutter, developed the Library of Congress Classification (LCC). This and the Dewey Decimal Classification became the most widely used systems of library classification.
