Pauline Atherton Cochrane: Continuation of research on S R Ranganathan's Theory of Classification

Pauline Atherton Cochrane is a leading researcher in the campaign to redesign catalogues and indexes to provide improved online subject access in library and information services as well as a leadingteacher and theorist in cataloging, indexing, and information access. She was a co-founder of the Classification Research Study Group in the late 1950s, a group devoted to the intellectual/theoretical development of knowledge organization based on Ranganathan's Library Research Circle (India) and the Classification Research Group (UK). Focusing on classification research she made Ranganathan's writings more accessible to researchers, educators, and students of America Europe.