List of Library Classification System with Developer’s Name & Year of Origin


Library Classification System Developer’s Name Year
Of the Proficience and advancement of Learning, Devine and Human / Bacon’s Scheme for the Classification of Knowledge Francis Bacon 1605
Harris Classification System William Torrey Harris 1870
A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library / Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey 1876
Expansive Classification System Charles Ammi Cutter 1886
Putnam Classification System George Herbert Putnam 1897
Quinn / Brown Classification James Duff Brown 1898
Adjustable Classification James Duff Brown 1898
Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet and Henri La Fontaine 1905
Library of Congress Classification (LCC) James C. M. Hanson 1904
Subject Classification James Duff Brown James Duff Brown 1906
Colon Classification S. R. Ranganathan 1933
Bibliographic Classification Henry Evelyn Bliss 1935
Rider’s International Classification: For the Arrangement of Books on the Shelves of General Libraries Arthur Fremont Rider 1961
Automatic Keyword Classification for Information Retrieval Karen Sparck Jones 1971
Broad System of Ordering (BSO) United Nations International Scientific Information System (UNISIST) 1978