MANY classifications have been evolved rather as an intellectual exercise than with any specific aim in view. Others have been made in the attempt to devise a so-called logical system. Most have ...

Paul Otlet was a Belgian, *1868, died 1944, who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human ...

THE past three years have witnessed in Germany a rapid development of interest in the universal decimal classification, the most important manifestation of which has been the adoption of that system ...