Education
He was educated at Princeton Graduate School and received a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy He graduated in 1937.
He was educated at Princeton Graduate School and received a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy He graduated in 1937.
He was also a graduate of the library school at Columbia University. From 1947-1982, Bartol Brinkler worked at Widener Library as head of classification and cataloging. In 1976, he trained all the catalogers at Widener Library on the Library of Conrgess Classification system.
Bartol Brinkler also served as a "consultant on classification (..this included the construction of a special classification system & supervision of reclassification for Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Washington, District of Columbia, 59-60, and J.K.Kennedy-Institut für Amerikastudien".
Bartol Brinkler died on 2 October 1993. He is remembered in the Princeton Alumni Weekly as a "quiet librarian."
He devised a modification of the Library of Congress Classification system, known as the Brinkler classification system to bring out better the geographical aspects of the subject in the context of a card catalog.