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Modern libraries did not develop in continuity with the encyclopedic ideas of the Enlightenment. In 1850-1914, the Dewey classification system had a dual impact: it redistributed technical skills among a whole new group of people, which included its users. More even than its scientific logic, its real innovation was the profound change it brought in the patterns of interaction between reader and library, which had always centered on study, by turning research and consultation into a new intellectual object.

Keywords

  • classification
  • classifying
  • Dewey
  • library
  • user
  • access to information
Éric Delamotte
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