Charles Ammi Cutter14 March 1837 - 6 September, 1903) is an
important figure in the history of American library science.
Cutter was appointed assistant librarian of Harvard Divinity
School while still a student there. After graduation, Cutter
worked as a librarian at Harvard College, where he developed a
new form of index catalog, using cards instead of published
volumes, containing both an author index and a "classed catalog"
or a rudimentary form of subject index. In 1868 Cutter was
appointed librarian of the Boston Athenaeum. Cutter was one of
the 100 or so founding members, in 1876, of the American Library
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