List of Library Classification Systems, Their Developer and Year of Origin

Name of the Library Classification System	Developer	Year
Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine 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	1906
Colon Classification (CC)	Shiyali Ramamrita 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 Spärck Jones	1971
Broad System of Ordering (BSO)	United Nations International Scientific Information System (UNISIST)	1978

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