Jack Mills

Jack Mills (1918 – 9 July 2010) 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 (later Chair) 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 (later University) 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 (BC2), a task he did not fulfil. The BC2 preserved the general structure of BC1, but the revised edition (BC2) 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.