Bartol Brinkler

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Bartol Brinkler was a librarian who was best known for creating the Brinkler classification system. He was educated at Princeton Graduate School and received a MA and a Ph.D. He graduated in 1937. From 1947-1982, Bartol Brinkler worked at Widener Library at Harvard University as head of classification and cataloging. In 1976, he trained all the catalogers at Widener Library on the Library of Congress 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, DC, [19]59-60, and J.K. Kennedy-Institut fur Amerikastudien" (Who's Who, 1970). Bartol Brinkler died on 2 October 1993. He is remembered in the Princeton Alumni Weekly as a "quiet librarian."^{[citation needed]}