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<p>The <b>Cutter Expansive Classification</b> system is a <a href="Library_classification" title="Library classification">library classification</a> system devised by <a href="Charles_Ammi_Cutter" title="Charles Ammi Cutter">Charles Ammi Cutter</a>. The system was the basis for the top categories of the <a href="Library_of_Congress_Classification" title="Library of Congress Classification">Library of Congress Classification</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LaMontagne-1961_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LaMontagne-1961-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 226">: 226 </span></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<p><a href="Charles_Ammi_Cutter" title="Charles Ammi Cutter">Charles Ammi Cutter</a> (1837–1903), inspired by the decimal classification of his contemporary <a href="Melvil_Dewey" title="Melvil Dewey">Melvil Dewey</a>, and with Dewey's initial encouragement, developed his own classification scheme for the <a href="Winchester%2C_Massachusetts" title="Winchester, Massachusetts">Winchester, Massachusetts</a> town library and then the <a href="Boston_Athen%C3%A6um" title="Boston Athenæum">Boston Athenæum</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-LaMontagne-1961_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LaMontagne-1961-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 208">: 208 </span></sup> at which he served as librarian for twenty-four years. He began work on it around the year 1880, publishing an overview of the new system in 1882. The same classification would later be used, but with a different notation, also devised by Cutter, at the <a href="Cary_Memorial_Library" title="Cary Memorial Library">Cary Library</a> in <a href="Lexington%2C_Massachusetts" title="Lexington, Massachusetts">Lexington, Massachusetts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cutter-1891_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cutter-1891-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 1">: 1 </span></sup>

</p><p>Many libraries found this system too detailed and complex for their needs, and Cutter received many requests from librarians at small libraries who wanted the classification adapted for their collections. While numbers and letters are required in large library classifications, small libraries did not need their classification system to be too specific.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He devised the Expansive Classification in response, to meet the needs of growing libraries, and to address some of the complaints of his critics.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

Cutter completed and published an introduction and schedules for the first six classifications of his new system (<i>Expansive Classification: Part I: The First Six Classifications</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-Cutter-1891_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cutter-1891-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but his work on the seventh was interrupted by his death in 1903.<sup id="cite_ref-LaMontagne-1961_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LaMontagne-1961-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 210">: 210 </span></sup>

</p><p>The Cutter Expansive Classification, although adopted by comparatively few libraries,<sup id="cite_ref-Winke-2004_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winke-2004-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> has been called one of the most logical and scholarly of American classifications.<sup id="cite_ref-Winke-2004_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winke-2004-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 123">: 123 </span></sup>

Library historian Leo E. LaMontagne wrote:

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<blockquote><p>Cutter produced the best classification of the nineteenth century. While his system was less "scientific" than that of <a href="J._P._Lesley" class="mw-redirect" title="J. P. Lesley">J. P. Lesley</a>, its other key features – notation, specificity, and versatility – make it deserving of the praise it has received.<sup id="cite_ref-LaMontagne-1961_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LaMontagne-1961-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 215">: 215 </span></sup></p></blockquote>

<p>Its top level divisions served as a basis for the <a href="Library_of_Congress_Classification" title="Library of Congress Classification">Library of Congress Classification</a>, which also took over some of its features.<sup id="cite_ref-LaMontagne-1961_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LaMontagne-1961-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 226">: 226 </span></sup> It did not catch on as did Dewey's system because Cutter died before it was completely finished, making no provision for the kind of development necessary as the bounds of knowledge expanded and scholarly emphases changed throughout the twentieth century.<sup id="cite_ref-Winke-2004_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Winke-2004-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Structure">Structure</h2></div>

<p>The Expansive Classification uses seven separate schedules, each designed to be used by libraries of different sizes. After the first, each schedule was an expansion of the previous one,<sup id="cite_ref-Miksa-1977_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miksa-1977-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 58">: 58 </span></sup>

and Cutter provided instructions for how a library might change from one expansion to another as it grows.<sup id="cite_ref-Cutter-1891_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cutter-1891-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 21–23">: 21–23 </span></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Summary_of_schedules">Summary of schedules</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_classification">First classification</h3></div>

<p>The first classification is meant for very small libraries. The first classification has only seven top-level classes, and only eight classes in total:

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<ul><li><b>A</b> Works of reference and general works which include several of the following sections, and so could not go in any one.</li>

<li><b>B</b> <a href="Outline_of_philosophy" title="Outline of philosophy">Philosophy</a> and <a href="Outline_of_religion" title="Outline of religion">Religion</a></li>

<li><b>E</b> Biography</li>

<li><b>F</b> <a href="Outline_of_history" title="Outline of history">History</a> and <a href="Outline_of_geography" title="Outline of geography">Geography</a> and Travels</li>

<li><b>H</b> <a href="Outline_of_social_science" title="Outline of social science">Social sciences</a></li>

<li><b>L</b> <a href="Outline_of_natural_science" title="Outline of natural science">Natural sciences</a> and <a href="The_arts" title="The arts">Arts</a></li>

<li><b>Y</b> <a href="Outline_of_linguistics" title="Outline of linguistics">Language</a> and <a href="Outline_of_literature" title="Outline of literature">Literature</a></li>

<li><b>YF</b> <a href="Outline_of_fiction" title="Outline of fiction">Fiction</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_classifications">Further classifications</h3></div>

<p>Further expansions add more top-level classes and subdivisions. Many subclasses arranged systematically, with common divisions, such as those by geography and language, following a consistent system throughout.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>By the fifth classification all the letters of the alphabet are in use for top-level classes. These are:

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<ul><li><b>A</b> General Works</li>

<li><b>B</b> <a href="Outline_of_philosophy" title="Outline of philosophy">Philosophy</a></li>

<li><b>C</b> <a href="Outline_of_Christianity" title="Outline of Christianity">Christianity</a> and <a href="Outline_of_Judaism" title="Outline of Judaism">Judaism</a></li>

<li><b>D</b> Ecclesiastical History</li>

<li><b>E</b> Biography</li>

<li><b>F</b> <a href="Outline_of_history" title="Outline of history">History</a>, Universal History</li>

<li><b>G</b> <a href="Outline_of_geography" title="Outline of geography">Geography</a> and Travels</li>

<li><b>H</b> <a href="Outline_of_social_science" title="Outline of social science">Social Sciences</a></li>

<li><b>I</b> Demotics, <a href="Outline_of_sociology" title="Outline of sociology">Sociology</a></li>

<li><b>J</b> Civics, Government, <a href="Outline_of_political_science" title="Outline of political science">Political Science</a></li>

<li><b>K</b> Legislation</li>

<li><b>L</b> <a href="Outline_of_science" title="Outline of science">Science</a> and <a href="The_arts" title="The arts">Arts</a> together</li>

<li><b>M</b> Natural History</li>

<li><b>N</b> <a href="Outline_of_botany" title="Outline of botany">Botany</a></li>

<li><b>O</b> <a href="Outline_of_zoology" title="Outline of zoology">Zoology</a></li>

<li><b>P</b> <a href="Outline_of_anthropology" title="Outline of anthropology">Anthropology</a> and Ethnology</li>

<li><b>Q</b> <a href="Outline_of_medicine" title="Outline of medicine">Medicine</a></li>

<li><b>R</b> Useful arts, <a href="Outline_of_technology" title="Outline of technology">Technology</a></li>

<li><b>S</b> Constructive arts (<a href="Outline_of_engineering" title="Outline of engineering">Engineering</a> and <a href="Outline_of_construction" title="Outline of construction">Building</a>)</li>

<li><b>T</b> <a href="Outline_of_manufacturing" title="Outline of manufacturing">Manufactures</a> and Handicrafts</li>

<li><b>V</b> Recreative arts, <a href="Outline_of_sports" title="Outline of sports">Sports</a>, <a href="Outline_of_games" title="Outline of games">Games</a>, <a href="Outline_of_festivals" title="Outline of festivals">Festivals</a></li>

<li><b>X</b> English Language</li>

<li><b>Y</b> English and American literature</li>

<p>These schedules were not meant to be fixed, but were to be adapted to meet the needs of each library. For example, books on the English language may be put in X, and books on language in general in a subclass of X, or this can be reversed. The first option is less logical, but results in shorter marks for most English language libraries.<sup id="cite_ref-Cutter-1891_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cutter-1891-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 27">: 27 </span></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Construction_of_call_numbers">Construction of call numbers</h2></div>

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<p>Most call numbers in the Expansive Classification follow conventions offering clues to the book's subject. The first line represents the subject, the second the author (and perhaps title), the third and fourth dates of editions, indications of translations, and critical works on particular books or authors. All numbers in the Expansive Classification are (or should be) shelved as if in decimal order.

</p><p>Size of volumes is indicated by points (.), pluses (+), or slashes (/ or //).

</p><p>For some subjects a numerical geographical subdivision follows the classification letters on the first line. The number 83 stands for the United States—hence, F83 is U.S. history, G83 U.S. travel, JU83 U.S. politics, WP83 U.S. painting. Geographical numbers are often further expanded decimally to represent more specific areas, sometimes followed by a capital letter indicating a particular city.

</p><p>The second line usually represents the author's name by a capital letter plus one or more numbers arranged decimally. This may be followed by the first letter or letters of the title in lower-case, and/or sometimes the letters a, b, c indicating other printings of the same title. When appropriate, the second line may begin with a 'form' number—e.g., 1 stands for history and criticism of a subject, 2 for a bibliography, 5 for a dictionary, 6 for an atlas or maps, 7 for a periodical, 8 for a society or university publication, 9 for a collection of works by different authors.

</p><p>On the third line a capital Y indicates a work about the author or book represented by the first two lines, and a capital E (for English—other letters are used for other languages) indicates a translation into English. If both criticism and translation apply to a single title, the number expands into four lines.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cutter_numbers">Cutter numbers</h3></div>

<p>One of the features adopted by other systems, including Library of Congress, is the Cutter number or Cutter code. It is an alphanumeric device to code text so that it can be arranged in alphabetical order using the fewest characters. It contains one or two initial letters and Arabic numbers, treated as a decimal. To construct a Cutter number, a cataloguer consults a Cutter table as required by the classification rules. Although Cutter numbers are mostly used for coding the names of authors, the system can be used for titles, subjects, geographic areas, and more.

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<caption>Cutter table for second character

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<caption>Cutter table for additional characters

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<p>Initial letters Qa–Qt are assigned Q2–Q29, while entries beginning with numerals have a Cutter number A12–A19, therefore sorting before the first A entry.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>So to make the three-digit Cutter number for "Cutter", one would start with "C", then looking under <i>other consonants</i>, find that "u" gives the number 8, and under <i>additional letters</i>, "t" is 8, giving a Cutter number of "C88".

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</style><cite id="CITEREFLaMontagne1961" class="citation book cs1">LaMontagne, Leo E (1961). <i>American Library Classification: With Special Reference to the Library of Congress</i>. Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-Cutter-1891-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Cutter-1891_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cutter-1891_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cutter-1891_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cutter-1891_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFCutter1891–93" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-year-range-abbreviated">Cutter, C. A. (1891–93). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=L10oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1"><i>Expansive Classification: Part I: The First Six Classifications</i></a>. Boston: C. A. Cutter.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFMurray2009" class="citation book cs1">Murray, Stuart (2009). <i>The Library: An Illustrated History</i>. Skyhorse Publishing. p. 205.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For the Expansive Classification as a response to Cutter's critics, see: <a href="#CITEREFMiksa1977">Miksa 1977</a>, p. 58

<ul><li>For the Expansive Classification as a response to the growing needs of libraries, see <a href="#CITEREFMiksa1977">Miksa 1977</a>, p. 58 and <a href="#CITEREFLaMontagne1961">LaMontagne 1961</a>, p. 209.</li>

<li>The above issues are also discussed by Cutter in <a href="#CITEREFCutter1891–93">Cutter 1891–93</a>.</li></ul>

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<li id="cite_note-Winke-2004-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Winke-2004_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Winke-2004_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Winke-2004_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFWinke2004" class="citation journal cs1">Winke, R. Conrad (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/5419/6654">"The Contracting World of Cutter's Expansive Classification"</a>. <i>Library Resources & Technical Services</i>. <b>48</b> (2): <span class="nowrap">122–</span>129. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.5860%2Flrts.48n2.122-129">10.5860/lrts.48n2.122-129</a></span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-Miksa-1977-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Miksa-1977_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFMiksa1977" class="citation book cs1">Miksa, Francis L., ed. (1977). <i>Charles Ammi Cutter: Library Systematizer</i>. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924092476229">"Expansive classification"</a>. 1891.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140814173419/http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/toolbox/tables/lccutter.htm">"LC Cutter Tables"</a>. <i>Queen Elizabeth II Libraries</i>. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/toolbox/tables/lccutter.htm">the original</a> on 14 August 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 August</span> 2014</span>.</cite></span>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>

<ul><li>Bliss, Henry Evelyn. <i>The Organization of Knowledge in Libraries: and the Subject-Approach to Books</i>, 2nd ed. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1939.</li>

<li>Cutter, Charles A. <i>Rules for a Dictionary Catalog</i>. W. P. Cutter, ed. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904. London: The Library Association, 1962.</li>

<li>Cutter, William Parker. <i>Charles Ammi Cutter</i>. Chicago: American Library Association, 1931. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1969.</li>

<li>Foster, William E. "Charles Ammi Cutter: A Memorial Sketch". <i>Library Journal</i> 28 (1903): 697–704.</li>

<li>Hufford, Jon R. "The Pragmatic Basis of Catalog Codes: Has the User Been Ignored?". <i>Cataloging and Classification Quarterly</i> 14 (1991): 27–38.</li>

<li>Immroth, John Philip. "Cutter, Charles Ammi". <i>Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science</i>. <a href="Allen_Kent" title="Allen Kent">Allen Kent</a> and Harold Lancour, ed. 47 vols. New York, M. Dekker [1968– ]</li>

<li>Slavis, Dobrica. "CUTT-x: An Expert System for Automatic Assignment of Cutter Numbers". <i>Cataloging and Classification Quarterly</i>. Vol 22, no. 2, 1996.</li>

<li>Tauber, Maurice F., and Edith Wise. "Classification Systems". <a href="Ralph_R._Shaw_(Librarian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ralph R. Shaw (Librarian)">Ralph R. Shaw</a>, ed.. <i>The State of the Library Art</i>. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U. Graduate School of Library Service, 1961. 1–528.</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://catalog.bostonathenaeum.org/cutterguide.html">The Boston Athenaeum's Guide to the classification system developed by Cutter for their collection</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://forbeslibrary.org/research/cutter-classification/">Forbes Library's Outline of Cutter's Expansive Classification system</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110928204437/http://www.forbeslibrary.org/pathfinders/Shelvingrules.pdf">A brief guide to the Expansive Classification from Forbes Library</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-1048:1"><i>Rules for a dictionary catalog, by Charles A. Cutter, fourth edition</i></a>, hosted by the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/">UNT Libraries Digital Collections</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/053/table.html">Library of Congress Guidelines for using the LC Online Shelflist and formulating a literary author number: Cutter Table</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oclc.org/dewey/support/program/default.htm">Dewey Cutter Program</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cutternumber.com.ar/">Three figure Cutter-Sanborn number on line</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="Nippon_Decimal_Classification" title="Nippon Decimal Classification">Nippon Decimal (NDC)</a></li>

<li><a href="Superintendent_of_Documents_Classification" title="Superintendent of Documents Classification">Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs)</a></li>

<li><a href="Swedish_library_classification_system" title="Swedish library classification system">Swedish library system (SAB)</a></li>

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