In 1908, while she was working at Vassar, Pettee met the librarian of Rochester Theological Seminary. This meeting
resulted in Pettee being invited to help reorganize that seminary’s library. Of this encounter, Pettee remarked, “The
upshot of that was that I was invited to spend the next summer reorganizing the Rochester Theological Seminary
Library.” In preparation for this experience, she visited numerous theological libraries to see how they were
organized. Although the Dewey and Cutter systems were in use or development at many libraries, Pettee “ultimately
chose a scheme in use at the Hartford Theological Seminary…based on Alfred Cave’s popular late-nineteenthcentury
encyclopedia, An Introduction to Theology: Its Principles, Its Branches, Its Results, and Its Literature, which separated the branches of theological knowledge into divisions in common use among religious scholars.”She used this system along with Dewey to complete the project, but this resulted in dividing the collection, as the theological materials were arranged according to Cave, and all of the other materials were classified with Dewey.
Pettee “regretted having to divide the collection”6 between the systems, and this regret would shape her future
work.
In 1908, while she was working at Vassar, Pettee met the librarian of Rochester Theological Seminary. This meeting
resulted in Pettee being invited to help reorganize that seminary’s library. Of this encounter, Pettee remarked, “The
upshot of that was that I was invited to spend the next summer reorganizing the Rochester Theological Seminary
Library.” In preparation for this experience, she visited numerous theological libraries to see how they were
organized. Although the Dewey and Cutter systems were in use or development at many libraries, Pettee “ultimately
chose a scheme in use at the Hartford Theological Seminary…based on Alfred Cave’s popular late-nineteenthcentury
encyclopedia, An Introduction to Theology: Its Principles, Its Branches, Its Results, and Its Literature, which separated the branches of theological knowledge into divisions in common use among religious scholars.”She used this system along with Dewey to complete the project, but this resulted in dividing the collection, as the theological materials were arranged according to Cave, and all of the other materials were classified with Dewey.
Pettee “regretted having to divide the collection”6 between the systems, and this regret would shape her future
work.
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