Reception
The reception of Bliss’s classification system was mixed at best. Bliss, himself, said that he received “more discouragement than encouragement from the first.” Many readers of Bliss’s work disliked his ideas simply because of the writing style. This was because Bliss’s writing was usually very complex and wordy. One Critic said That Bliss’s writing was “much too long. Its exposition is frequently tedious and it has an overplus of trivial observations.” The Reviews weren’t all bad, though. Susan Grey Akers, in 1936, wrote that Bliss’s system “has possibilities which are interesting and thought-provoking.” Grace O. Kelley, writing in 1934 said,“a field of investigation is here presented which… would go far toward lifting librarianship to a plane of scholarship easily ranking with other disciplines which glory in the possession of subject matter which they can call their own”
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