id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ital-5722 Hazelton, Robert S. Cataloging Geometry 1972-03-01 5 .pdf application/pdf 2004 120 61 Both the best and the worst of this view are exhibited as it is pushed to the extreme: The failure of our present systems of book classification in no way condemns the act of classification as a fundamental bibliographic technique. Book classification, as we have used it in the past, has failed for two reasons: one, because it has been based upon the book as a physical entity without taking into consideration the inherent character of the book as a composite intellectual product; two, because of limitations arising from the properties of our hierarchical systems of classification. cache/ital-5722.pdf txt/ital-5722.txt