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What work did Francis Bacon do with the design and organization of libraries ?

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What Francis Bacon did with the design and organization of libraries was that he created a classification for books and texts, that served as an influence for the way big libraries, such as the Library of Congress classifies books.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) classified his books into three categories: reason, memory, and imagination. This system was first copied by antifederalist politician Thomas Jefferson to organize his library. In the end, Thomas Jefferson developed a big catalog with 44 categories. That is how Francis Bacon influence the design and organization of libraries.

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