“Seymour Lubetzky, who helped librarians channel the rising tide of information with his ingenious transformation of cataloging, died last Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 104.”
“Mr. Lubetzky worked for years at the Library of Congress, where he started in the 1940’s sorting out an overwhelming backlog of books waiting to be entered into the library’s soaring inventory. In the 1960’s he taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he retired in 1969 as a professor at the School of Library Service.”
“The Dewey Decimal Classification assigns numbers to books to organize them on library shelves. But Mr. Lubetzky’s theories went beyond the numbers to provide descriptive rules for identifying a book and condensing its nature into a meaningful but concise catalog entry in a place where a user might look for it.” (from The New York Times)
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