Harvard College Library Department of Classification and Cataloging, [flow chart], May 1936.

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

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Library administration

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Directors of the University of Idaho Library John E. Bonebright was hired as a math and physics instructor by the university in 1893; added to these duties was the position of "librarian". When he went to full time teaching in the fall of 1896 he was replaced by Stella Maud Allen, an 1896 graduate of the University. She organized the collection and began classifying books according to the Dewey Decimal system. Allen resigned in 1899 and Margaret B. McCallie, an 1898 grad...