Charles Ammi Cutter

Charles Ammi Cutter ( born March 14, 1837 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, † September 6, 1903 in Walpole, New Hampshire, United States) was an American librarian.

Charles Cutter graduated from Harvard University, where he also worked in the library. In 1868 he became librarian at the Boston Athenaeum. In 1876 he was co-founder of the American Library Association ( ALA).

Cutter worked in the field of library classifications and designed a after him called classification system ( " Cutter Expansive Classification" ) and together with his colleague Kate Emery Sanborn a new method for signature generation, the so-called Cutter - Sanborn AuthorsTable or Cutter - Sanborn notation ( also called " Cutter numbers").

• Librarian
• Americans
• Born in 1837
• Died in 1903
• Man