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expansive classification

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noun

Library Science.

  1. a system of classifying books and other materials consisting of seven classification schemes, each after the first being progressively further subdivided.

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Mr. C. A. Cutter has devised a system of "Expansive classification," now widely used in American libraries.

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Cutter's author table, 34, 91;   expansive classification, 79, 84-90;   rules for a dictionary catalog, 31.

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She has been instructor in the Expansive Classification in Simmons College Library School since its opening.

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