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 at Widener Library at Harvard University as head of classification and cataloging. In 1976, he trained all the catalogers at Widener Library on the Library 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 for Dumbarton 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 2008

He 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.]