LIS Notes for Competitive Examinations 17 : List of Library Classification Schemes

 

Dewey Decimal Classification – 1876 – Melvil Dewey

Expansive Classificatgion – 1891 – C A Cutter 

Library of Congress Classification –1904 – Library of Congress 

Universal Decimal Classification—1905 – Paul Otlet and Henry La Fontain 

Subject Classification—1906 – J D Brown

Colon Classification—1933 – S R Rangananthan

Bibliographic Classification—1935 -- H E Bliss 

Riders Internation Classification—1961 – A F Rider 

Broad System of Ordering—1978 – FID & UNESCO