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Wisser, Katherine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Bibliographic classification is culturally bound. This research examines the classification systems created for social libraries in the first half of the nineteenth century in the United States. Social libraries are defined as institutions that have voluntary membership and are dependent on membership fees. Seventeen classified catalogs were…
Descriptors: Classification, United States History, Cultural Differences, Libraries