Many libraries chose to move to Union Classification, and many new libraries found themselves choosing between
Dewey or Union, as Library of Congress classification had still not reached a stage of popular usefulness. Among
them, the libraries of Southeastern Baptist Seminary, Fuller Theological Seminary, and College of the Bible
chose Union as their classification system. In 1953, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary “selected for our
classification the Union Theological Seminary Classification scheme.” Although they did make some adaptations,
they found it “quite satisfactory.”24 Fuller Theological Seminary also chose Union with a few adaptations.25 College
of the Bible (which later became Lexington Theological Seminary) adopted Union in 1950. Roscoe M. Pierson,
the librarian at College of the Bible, explained, “When we changed to Union, our library had existed historically
across a hundred years—parts of it even more than that—and it was on all kinds of systems. It had been separated
from a college library and had to be reclassified. I thought of every possible system and decided to use Union.”