School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4217, USA.
J Med Libr Assoc. 2011 Jan;99(1):40-50. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.99.1.008.
This article examines the inspiration, construction, and meaning of the Bellevue Classification System (BCS), created during the 1930s for use in the Bellevue School of Nursing Library. Nursing instructor Ann Doyle, with assistance from librarian Mary Casamajor, designed the BCS after consulting with library leaders and examining leading contemporary classification systems, including the Dewey Decimal Classification and Library of Congress, Ballard, and National Health Library classification systems. A close textual reading of the classes, subclasses, and subdivisions of these classification systems against those of the resulting BCS, reveals Doyle's belief that the BCS was created not only to organize the literature, but also to promote the burgeoning intellectualism and professionalism of early twentieth-century American nursing.
本文探讨了贝尔维尤分类系统(BCS)的灵感、构建和意义,该系统是在 20 世纪 30 年代为贝尔维尤护理学院图书馆而创建的。护理教师安·道尔(Ann Doyle)在图书馆员玛丽·卡萨姆亚戈尔(Mary Casamajor)的协助下,在咨询了图书馆领导并研究了当时领先的分类系统,包括杜威十进制分类法、国会图书馆、巴拉德和国家卫生图书馆分类系统之后,设计了 BCS。对这些分类系统的类目、子类和细分与最终 BCS 的类目、子类和细分进行逐字阅读,揭示了道尔的信念,即 BCS 的创建不仅是为了组织文献,也是为了促进 20 世纪早期美国护理的蓬勃发展的理智主义和专业性。