This publication followed his 1908 reclassification of the City College collection.
His solution was the concept of "alternative location," in which a particular subject could be put in more than one place, as long as the library made a specific choice and used it consistently. Bliss discusses his theories and basis of organization for the Bliss Classification for the first time in his 1910 article, "A Modern Classification for Libraries, with Simple Notation, Mnemonics, and Alternatives".
Bliss (1870–1955) and published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953.
His work, Organization of Knowledge and the System of the Sciences was published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953. The four broad underlying policies of the BC system are: alternative location brief, concise notation organizing knowledge according to academic expertise subjects moving gradually from topic to topic as they naturally related to one another. Bliss deliberately avoided the use of the decimal point because of his objection to Dewey's system.
Bliss (1870–1955) and published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953.
His work, Organization of Knowledge and the System of the Sciences was published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953. The four broad underlying policies of the BC system are: alternative location brief, concise notation organizing knowledge according to academic expertise subjects moving gradually from topic to topic as they naturally related to one another. Bliss deliberately avoided the use of the decimal point because of his objection to Dewey's system.
For example, at Lancaster University: T Economics TD Business Economics TDG Management of Industry ==Adoption and change to BC2== In 1967 the Bliss Classification Association was formed.
A revision of this nature has been considered by some to be a completely new system. The City College library in New York continued to use Bliss's system until 1967, when it switched to the Library of Congress system.
By the mid-1950s the system was being used in at least sixty British libraries and in a hundred by the 1970s The Bliss Classification system has been found to be successful in academic, specialty, government, and law libraries.
A second edition of the system (BC2) has been in ongoing development in Britain since 1977. ==Origins of the system== Henry E.
In 1977 it began to publish and maintain a revised version of Bliss's system, the Bliss Bibliographic Classification (Second Edition) or BC2.
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