His scheme became very popular not least because it was
recommended for use by Dewey in the then second edition of his
classification. The main drawback of Biscoe’s table was thShelf Arrangement
Historically, there are two types of shelf arrangement
requiring two different methods of book labelling:
• Fixed arrangement – where books are labelled according to
the shelf to which they belong, as was the case in libraries
before the 19th centuryat it was
not developed beyond 1999. Other widely known chronological
schemes were those devised by William S. Merrill, James Duff
Brown and S. R. Ranganathan.