美国图书馆学家朱厄特的历史贡献研究

The Historical Contribution of American Library Scholar: Charles Coffin Jewett

朱厄特是美国图书馆史上的杰出人物、美国图书馆事业的先驱。他曾任布朗大学第一位图书馆馆长、史密森宁学会图书馆馆长、波士顿公共图书馆编目馆员兼采访馆员。此外,他曾发起建立国家图书馆,对全国公共图书馆调查并组织1853年纽约全美图书馆员大会,试图成立全国性的图书馆员协会。其主要历史贡献在于提出美国最早的编目规则,标志美国编目事业从此走上了一条独立的、成熟的发展道路。

Charles Coffin Jewett(1816-1868) was a pioneer of the American library profession and an outstanding figure in the history of American librarianship. He was the first full-time librarian at Brown University(1841-1847), the librarian of the Smithsonian institution(1847-1855), and the cataloger and acquisition librarian of the Boston public library(1855-1868). He initiated the campaign to establish the national library, investigated the public libraries and organized the national conference of librarians in New York in 1853, in an attempt to establish a national association of librarians. His main contribution includes the earliest cataloging rules of the United States, which indicates that the cataloging of the United States would embark on an independent and mature developing path.