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Henry E. Bliss
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Henry E. Bliss

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  • British Museum: Reading Room
    library
    / The Bliss system

    …bibliographic classification system invented by Henry E. Bliss of the College of the City of New York (published in 1935 as A System of Bibliographic Classification) has made important contributions to the theory of classification, particularly in Bliss’s acute perception of the role of synthesis and his insistence that a…

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    …bibliographic classification system invented by Henry E. Bliss of the College of the City of New York (published in 1935 as A System of Bibliographic Classification) has made important contributions to the theory of classification, particularly in Bliss’s acute perception of the role of synthesis and his insistence that a…

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