Dante control sheets, 1976-1992.

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Dante control sheets, 1976-1992.

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Notebook documenting the conversion of the Cornell Library's Dante Collection books from the Harris to the Library of Congress classification, showing the old and the new call number for each book. It also records which books were transferred from the Dante to the Petrarch Collection. Notebook has a worn black cloth cover.

1 volume ; 29 cm.

Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Cornell University. Libraries. Dept. of Rare Books.

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The Harris classification was created by George William Harris, who served as University Librarian at Cornell from 1886-1915. Based on the British Library classification system, the Harris classification grouped books loosely by subject. In 1942, Cornell University Library embarked on a project to convert its books to the Library of Congress classification system. Most of the conversion was finished by the early 1970s, but a small number of rare books remained in the Harris classification. ...

Harris, George William, 1849-1917

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Cornell University Librarian. Inventor of the Harris system of book classification, which was used at Cornell from the 1880s until the 1940s. From the description of George William Harris papers, 1868-1914. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63933989 ...

Cornell University. Library. Dante Collection.

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