Harris control sheets, 1969-1990.

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Harris control sheets, 1969-1990.

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Notebooks documenting the conversion of the Cornell Library's rare books and manuscripts from the Harris to the Library of Congress classification, showing the old and the new call number for each item. The manuscripts notebook also contains an annotated photocopy of Seymour De Ricci's list of early manuscripts at Cornell, from his Census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. It also records which books were transferred to collections other than Rare Books, such as the History of Science Collections, the Witchcraft Collection, or the Dept. of Regional History and University Archives. Notebooks have black cloth covers.

2 volumes ; 29 cm.

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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. ...

Cornell University. Collection of Regional History and University Archives

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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. Libraries. Witchcraft Collection.

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Ricci, Seymour ˜deœ 1881-1942

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Bibliographer, papyrologist, collector, and historian of Merovingian tapestries. De Ricci was an expert on the provenance of rare books. He created three reference books of manuscripts and rare books: Catalogue raisonné des premières impressions de Mayence, 1445-1467 , Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle , and Census of Medieval Manuscripts in the United States and Canada . In the field of Egypt papyrology, De Ricci traveled throughout Egypt, North America, and ...

Cornell University. Libraries. History of Science Collections.

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