biography
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Cutter, Charles (Ammi)
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| lived:
| (1837–1903)
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| biography:
| Librarian, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard Divinity School, and then became librarian of the Boston Athenaeum (1869–93) where he compiled the library's influential Catalogue. His multipart Expansive Classification system, which was designed to help growing libraries expand without completely reclassifying, influenced the Library of Congress system. With his life-long rival, Melvil Dewey, and others, he founded the American Library Association (1876). |
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