- Bartol Brinkler
Bartol Brinkler was a cataloging librarian, the head of cataloging and Classification at Harvard University's Widener Library.. He was educated at Princeton Graduate School and received a MA and a
Ph.D. He graduated in 1937. From 1947-1982, Bartol Brinkler worked atWidener Library atHarvard University as head of classification and cataloging. In 1976, he trained all the catalogers at Widener Library on theLibrary of Congress classification system . Bartol Brinkler also served as a "consultant on classification (...this included the construction of a special classification system & supervision of reclassification forDumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, DC, [19] 59-60, and J.K. Kennedy-Institut fur Amerikastudien" ("Who's Who", 1970). Bartol Brinkler died on 2 October 1993. He is remembered in the "Princeton Alumni Weekly" as a "quiet librarian."Fact|date=March 2008He devised a modification of the LC purpose classification system, known as the " Brinkler classification system.' to bring out betterthe geographical aspects of the subject in the context of a card catalog.
References
*Brinkler, Bartol. The geographical approach to materials in the Library of Congress subject headings: report of a study project. s.l.: s.n., 1960. [Accession No: OCLC 3853830] OCLC|3853830.
*Brinkler, Bartol. The geographical approach to materials in the Library of Congress subject headings. Library Resources & Technical Services 6, no. 1 (Winter 1962): 49-64.
*Who's who in library service. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1933, 1943, 1955, 1966. 5th edition published as: A Biographical directory of librarians in the United States and Canada. Chicago, ALA, 1970.External links
* [http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/#widener Harvard University. Widener Library.]
* [http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html Library of Congress Classification Outline.]
* [http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/memorials/memorials_1930s/memorials_1937.html Princeton Alumni Weekly: Memorials 1937.]
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