<P> The classification was invented by Herbert Putnam in 1897 , just before he assumed the librarianship of Congress . With advice from Charles Ammi Cutter , it was influenced by his Cutter Expansive Classification , the Dewey Decimal System , and the Putnam Classification System ( developed while Putnam was head librarian at the Minneapolis Public Library ) . It was designed specifically for the purposes and collection of the Library of Congress to replace the fixed location system developed by Thomas Jefferson . By the time Putnam departed from his post in 1939 , all the classes except K ( Law ) and parts of B ( Philosophy and Religion ) were well developed . </P>
<P> The classification was invented by Herbert Putnam in 1897 , just before he assumed the librarianship of Congress . With advice from Charles Ammi Cutter , it was influenced by his Cutter Expansive Classification , the Dewey Decimal System , and the Putnam Classification System ( developed while Putnam was head librarian at the Minneapolis Public Library ) . It was designed specifically for the purposes and collection of the Library of Congress to replace the fixed location system developed by Thomas Jefferson . By the time Putnam departed from his post in 1939 , all the classes except K ( Law ) and parts of B ( Philosophy and Religion ) were well developed . </P>
who created the library of congress classification system
who created the library of congress classification system
Herbert Putnam
Herbert Putnam