author
E. Wyndham Hulme
1859–1954
A pioneering British librarian and bibliographer, he helped shape modern thinking about how books and knowledge should be organized. His work on classification and "statistical bibliography" still echoes in library and information science today.
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Leather for Libraries
by E. Wyndham Hulme, Cyril Davenport, J. Gordon (James Gordon) Parker, A. (Alfred) Seymour-Jones, F. J. Williamson
About the author
Edward Wyndham Hulme was a British librarian, bibliographer, and scholar of classification, born in 1859. He studied at Oxford and spent most of his working life at the Patent Office Library in Great Britain, eventually serving as its librarian before retiring in 1919.
He is especially remembered for ideas that became influential in library and information science, including the principle later known as "literary warrant" and his work on book classification. Hulme also wrote Statistical Bibliography in Relation to the Growth of Modern Civilization, based on lectures he delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1922.
Alongside his theoretical work, he wrote on practical library topics and on the history of the English patent system. Some sources list his death year as 1951, while others give 1954, so the record appears mixed; the dates supplied here follow the latter.