"In 1958 the classification ideas in it were felt to controversial, needing to be championed. A few years before, the {[w|Classification Research Group}} had issued a memorandum proclaiming "the need for a faceted classification as the basis of all methods of information retrieval'. As part-author of this memorandum, I must now judge the claim to have been too bold, even brash."
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Brian Vickery (1975) Classification and indexing in science Preface to third edition. (First edition 1958).
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