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Library Journal, Volume 6
Charles Ammi Cutter, American Library Association
Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells
R. R. Bowker Co., 1881
Language Arts & Disciplines; Library & Information Science; Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science; Libraries; Library science
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Library Journal, Volume 7
Charles Ammi Cutter, American Library Association
Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells
R. R. Bowker Co., 1882
Libraries; Library science
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Library Journal, Volume 18
Charles Ammi Cutter, American Library Association
Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, L. Pylodet, Bertine Emma Weston, Karl Brown, Helen E. Wessells
R. R. Bowker Co., 1893
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Charles Ammi Cutter was an American librarian. He was reckoned among the halfdozen foremost American librarians.
Background
Charles Ammi Cutter was born on March 14, 1837 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was the third son of Charles Champney and Hannah (Biglow) Cutter, was descended on both sides from ancestors who for eight generations had lived and died within a few miles of Boston. Among them were farmers, housewrights, traders, millers, innholders, but no scholars. Cutter was born in Boston, and spent his childhood in Charlestown and Cambridge.
Education
From the Hopkins Grammar School Cutter entered Harvard College at fourteen, graduating third among the eighty-two members of the class of 1855.
While in the Harvard Divinity School (1858 - 59), he was librarian as well as student.
Career
Cutter became attracted toward librarianship that after preaching a few months he went into the Harvard library, where he served as an assistant from 1860 to 1868.
In December 1868 he was elected librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, the most famous of American proprietary libraries.
It is clear evidence of his quality that he held this prized position under such directors as the first and second Charles Francis Adams, Brooks Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Francis Parkman, and Henry Cabot Lodge, and gave satisfaction to such readers as Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Whipple, Palfrey, Bancroft, Charles Sumner, and many other New England “Brahmins” to whom the Athenasum was a literary sanctuary.
In such congenial surroundings it would have been easy to let the demands of the hour absorb one’s days; but Cutter devoted twelve years of incessant labor to the production of his monumental Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum tint, which Justin Winsor said was “the best catalogue extant. ”
For years it stood almost alone in American bibliographic undertakings in magnitude and thoroughness.
As an aid to other libraries there was at that time nothing remotely comparable to it.
Out of the difficulties met in compiling this catalogue grew a work of wide usefulness and more permanent value, his Rules for a Printed Dictionary Catalogue (1875), intended for the guidance of himself and his associates but recognized at once as so valuable a tool that it was reprinted by the national Bureau of Education in 1876. It immediately became the world’s leading text-book in systematic dictionary cataloguing and has not yet been superseded.
In the great library movement which began with the organization of the American Library Association he had a large part. From its first meeting in Philadelphia in October 1876, until his death, he attended more of its annual conferences than any other person.
His Expansive Classification (1891 - 1904), “the most logical and scholarly of modern bibliographic schemes, ” is his best but not his most famous work.
Declining réélection at the Athenaeum in 1893, he spent the next year and a half in European travel and study.
In October 1894 he began to develop the newly founded Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts. His plans for cultivating literary and artistic taste in his younger readers involved the lending of pictures and musical scores as well as books. He aimed, as he said in the last year of his life, to develop “a new type of public library, which, speaking broadly, will lend everything to anybody in any desired quantity for any desired time. ” Evidences of his wide culture are to be found in the files of the Nation to which he was a contributor for thirty-five years.
Cutter was a man of spontaneous and unconquerable humor, a delightful companion, and of an incorrigible industry that made him eminent in his profession.
Interests
He was an ardent lover of nature, was keenly interested in music, art, the drama, and dancing, was devoted to rowing, bicycling, mountain-climbing.
Connections
On May 21, 1863 Cutter married Sarah Fayerweather Appleton, daughter of Charles John and Sophia (Haven) Appleton of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.