The Life and Work of Julia Pettee (1872-1967)

by Lennart Pearson

Best known for her design of the Union Theological Seminary Classification System, JULIA PETTEE was a master librarian. Her ideas about the organization of knowledge were philosophically grounded in a conviction about the unity of knowledge, growing out of her experience as a cataloger at Vassar College and Rochester Theological Seminary. Drawing on an article by psychologist Hugo M nsterberg in the Atlantic Monthly, she ingeniously structured the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1456497839
• ISBN13: 9781456497835
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"