Library Science
For many years he was librarian of the BEA Library in London, one of the world's most well-stocked Esperanto libraries, which the magazine Esperanto (1970, p. 118) declared to be "kreaĵo de li" ("his creation.") To organize this library he modified the Universal Decimal Classification to the special needs of Esperanto libraries. Several other Esperanto libraries later adopted the system which he had elaborated.
The major collection of Esperanto and Esperanto-related books he assembled during his lifetime now forms the heart of the Butler Library which the BEA established at Wedgwood Memorial College in Staffordshire, England, and named in his honour.
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