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Melvil Dewey
Invented the Dewey Decimal System for library classification.
Paul Otlet
Created the Universal Decimal Classification, a bibliographic classification system.
S.R. Ranganathan
Developed the Five Laws of Library Science and the Colon Classification system.
Carla Hayden
First African American and first woman to serve as the Librarian of Congress.
Charles Cutts
In the early 19th century, he implemented the closed stacks system in the Library of Congress.
Frederick G. Kilgour
Founder of OCLC and created the WorldCat library system.
Suzanne Briet
Known for her influential work on the Documentation movement and considered a key figure in the history of information science.
Michael Gorman
He co-authored 'Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules', second edition, which standardizes data entry for library materials.
Elisabeth Cleveland
Developed readers' advisory service and promoted open stacks, making it easier for patrons to browse library materials.
Aaron Swartz
Co-authored the 'RSS 1.0 specification', which is used for publishing news updates on the internet and co-founded Reddit, which has had a significant impact on information sharing and dissemination.
Lorcan Dempsey
Worked on network-level library innovations and applied the concept of the Long Tail to library collection development.
Herbert Putnam
Expanded the Library of Congress’s role and helped establish interlibrary loans, making it possible for people to borrow books from other libraries.
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