The eye prophetic: Julia Pettee

Libraries and the Cultural Record

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 162-182

  Walker, Christopher H ^a,b   Copeland, Ann ^a,c,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ACRL/RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee ^*

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 70350102536     PISSN: 19324855     EISSN: 19329555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lac.0.0069     Document Type: Review

References (57)

1. Julia Pettee, "A Classification for a Theological Library," Library Journal 36 (1911): 623
2. Constance Rinehart, "Julia Pettee," in Dictionary of American Library Biography (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1978), 394-395
3. Richard D. Spoor, "Julia Pettee and Her Contribution to Theological Librarianship," in The American Theological Library Association: Essays in Celebration of the First Fifty Years, ed. M. Patrick Graham, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, and Kenneth E. Rowe (Evanston, Ill.: American Theological Library Association, 1996), 183-95
4. Lennart Pearson, "The Life and Work of Julia Pettee, 1872-1967," ATLA Newsletter, November 14, 1970, supp., 25-92
5. In nineteenth-century America "female seminaries" provided postsecondary education for women. Many of the most successful evolved later into women's liberal arts colleges or teacher training institutions. Mount Holyoke was considered one of the most academically challenging. See Linda Eisenmann, ed., Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998), 250-255
6. Pearson, "The Life and Work," 26
7. Julia Pettee, "Pratt Institute Library School 1894-1895," Julia Pettee Papers, no.2007-09, Pratt Institute Archives, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (hereafter referred to as Pettee Papers)
8. Anthony Cucciara and Sandra Roff, "The Pratt Experiment: The Early Years of the Library School," Long Island Historical Journal 3, no.2 (1991): 246-247
9. Mario Charles and Sandra Roff, "Julia Pettee's Year in Brooklyn at the Pratt Institute Library School, 1894-1895," Long Island Historical Journal 10, no.1 (1997): 87
10. On the Armour Institute see Laurel Ann Grotzinger, The Power and the Dignity: Librarianship and Katharine Sharp (New York: Scarecrow Press, 1965)
11. Marilyn Lea Miller, Pioneers and Leaders in Library Service to Youth: A Biographical Dictionary (Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2003), 166. On Abraham Freidus, the scholar and librarian, see the remarkably irreverent and yet affectionate biography maintained online by the New York Public Library at http:// www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/freidus.html
12. The Freidus Classification system was adopted by other special collections of Hebraica; the Marcive Newsletter 49 (January 2005), available online at http://www.marcive.com/homepage/nl49 .pdf, records the decision at Hebrew College in Massachusetts to reclassify from Freidus to the Library of Congress system in 2005. Roster of Pettee's classmates provided to the authors by Pratt Institute archivist Paul Schlotthauer
13. Pettee, "Pratt Institute Library School 1894-1895."
14. Josephine Adams Rathbone, "The Pratt Institute School of Library Science," Library Journal, November 15, 1921, 935-936
15. "Guide to the Julia Pettee Papers, 1994-1966," Pettee Papers, no.2007-09
16. Encyclopedia of World Biography (Detroit, Mich.: Gale, 1998)
17. The Vassar College librarian's annual report for 1898-99, quoted in Charles and Roff, "Julia Pettee's Year," 94
18. Julia Pettee, "Dissertations and Program Literature," Library Journal 29 (1904): 297-300
19. Charles and Roff, "Julia Pettee's Year," 94-95, quoting the Vassar College librarian's annual report for 1905-1906
20. Julia Pettee, "On the Union Classification System," in A Broadening Conversation: Classic Readings in Theological Librarianship, ed. Melody Layton McMahon and David R. Stewart (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2006), 276
21. Julia Pettee, "A Cataloger for More than Half a Century Takes a Backward Look at Her Profession and Reviews Her Thirty Years as Head Cataloger of the Union Theological Seminary Library, in Relation to It," unpublished ms., 1962, [6]. The original, which runs to sixty-nine unnumbered pages, is in the collections at Burke Library, Columbia University, and is not available to researchers; we consulted a photocopy held at the William Smith Morton Library at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia, through the kindness of its archivist, Dr. Paula Skreslet
22. Spoor, "Julia Pettee and Her Contribution," 186
23. Pettee probably would have been working from the revised second edition: Alfred Cave, An Introduction to Theology: Its Principles, Its Branches, Its Results, and Its Literature (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896)
24. Pettee, "On the Union Classification System," 276
25. Julia Pettee's Subject Headings: The History and Theory of the Alphabetical Subject Approach to Books (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1946)
26. quoted in Rinehart, "Julia Pettee," 395
27. William Walker Rockwell, "Preface," in Classification of the Library of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, prepared by Julia Pettee, revised and enlarged edition with additions and corrections, ed. Ruth C. Eisenhart (New York: Union Theological Seminary, 1967), iv
28. Pettee, "A Cataloger," [16]
29. Dr. Gillett would most likely have had access to the first edition: Alfred Cave, An Introduction to Theology: Its Principles, Its Branches, Its Results, and Its Literature (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1886)
30. Pettee, Subject Headings, 23
31. Julia Pettee, "The Philosophy of the Maker of a Special Classification," Special Libraries 28, no.7 (1937): 254
32. J. C. M. Hanson, "Library of Congress Classification for College Libraries," Library Journal, February 15, 1921, 151
33. Pettee, "The Philosophy," 255
34. Hugo Münsterberg, "The International Congress of Arts and Sciences," Atlantic Monthly, May 1903, 674
35. Rockwell, "Preface," iii
36. Pettee wrote tartly, years later, "I could never see why Dewey needed a committee. When a member made a suggestion he had already considered and either adopted it or ruled it out" ("A Cataloger," [29])
37. Anita S. Coleman, "William Stetson Merrill and Bricolage for Information Studies," Journal of Documentation 64, no.4 (2006): 469-470
38. Classification of the Library of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, rev. and enlarged ed. (New York: Union Theological Seminary, 1939)
39. William Smith Morton Library Orientation Manual, available online at http://gargoyle.union-psce.edu/tutorial/manual/
40. Presbyterian Theological Center, Library Handbook, available online at www.ptcsydney.org/content/files/ Library Handbook.pdf; Dalton McCaughey Library's online FAQ, at http:// www.dml.vic.edu.au/index.php?option=com- content&task=view&id=44&Ite mid=77#class
41. Technical services coordinator Sue Taylor, e-mail message to Christopher H. Walker, September 11, 2007
42. Robert Wolven, AUL for Bibliographic Services and Collection Development, Columbia University Libraries, e-mail message to Christopher Walker, June 18, 2008
43. quoting Julia Pettee, "The Organization of Knowledge and Its Bearing upon Library Classification," unpublished ms., Burke Library, Union Theological Seminary
44. List of Theological Subject Headings and Corporate Church Names Based upon the Headings in the Catalogue of the Library of Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 2nd ed. (Chicago: American Library Association, 1947)
45. Helen Grant Cushing, review in Library Journal, December 15, 1946, 1803
46. Raymond P. Morris, "Statement on Miss Julia Pettee," American Theological Library Association Summary of Proceedings 21 (1967): 71
47. Francis Miksa, The Subject in the Dictionary Catalog from Cutter to the Present (Chicago: American Library Association, 1983), 295
48. Francis Miksa, "User Categories and User Convenience," in Reference Services and Technical Services: Interactions in Library Practice, ed. Gordon Stevenson and Sally Stevenson (New York: Haworth Press, 1984), 124-127
49. Committees of the American Library Association and the (British) Library Association, comps., Catalog Rules: Author and Title Entries, American ed. (Boston: American Library Association Publishing Board, 1908)
50. Julia Pettee, "Wanted - Catalogers," Library Journal, 15 June 1921, 543-544
51. Julia Pettee, "The Development of Authorship Entry and the Formulation of Authorship Rules as Found in the Anglo-American Code," Library Quarterly 6 (July 1936): 270-90
52. reprinted in Foundations of Cataloging: A Sourcebook, ed. Michael Carpenter and Elaine Svenonius (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1985), 75-88
53. "Corporate Entry and the Paris Conference," Library Resources & Technical Services 6 (1962): 377
54. Julia Pettee, The Rev. Jonathan Lee and His Eighteenth Century Salisbury Parish (Salisbury, Conn.: Salisbury Association, 1957)
55. Wayne A. Wiegand, "View from the Top: The Library Administrator's Changing Perspective on Standardization Schemes and Cataloging Practices in American Libraries, 1891-1901," in Stevenson and Stevenson, Reference Services, 11-14
56. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the American Theological Library Association, available online at www.atla.com
57. Eileen K. Crawford, "Introduction to Part Six," in A Broadening Conversation: Classic Readings in Theological Librarianship (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2006), 274