Jack Mills (classification researcher)

Jack Mills was a British librarian and classification researcher, who worked for more than sixty years in the study, teaching, development and promotion of library classification and information retrieval, principally as a major figure in the British school of facet analysis which builds on the traditions of Henry E. Bliss and S.R. Ranganathan.

Professional life

1947–48 Senior Assistant, Greenwich P. L.
1949–52 Librarian, City of London College
1952 British Bliss Classification Association committee member
1952 Member Classification Research Group
1952–62 Assistant Lecturer, North Western Polytechnic
1960 Chair of the Bliss Classification Association Committee
1963–64 Deputy Director, Aslib-Cranfield Project
1966–67 Library School, University of Maryland
1968 Lecturer, North Western Polytechnic
1973–84 Reader, School of Librarianship, Polytechnic of North London
1985 Retired

BC2

From the 1960s Jack Mills was the driving force behind the revision of the Bliss bibliographic classification, chairing the Bliss Classification Association Committee, and undertaking the greater part of the work of revision as Editor of the new scheme. He was a great admirer of Bliss's classification and used most of his life to develop a revised edition, a task he did not fulfil. The BC2 preserved the general structure of BC1, but the revised edition is to all intents and purposes a new scheme of classification, realising the hopes of the Classification Research Group for the development of a new British scheme of classification.