Word: stack
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fundamental idea in the classification of books in the stack of the Harvard Library is to place all the resources which are needed at one time by the student in the same place. Of course all the works on a subject cannot be brought together, but much can be done by collecting correlated matter. In this particular the classification is wholly different in Gore Hall from that of other libraries which divide the whole collection into fields--as history, philosophy, etc. The authors are grouped by centuries and then alphabetically. Elsewhere they are scattered. The treatment of biography is also...