The work of the information officer [should be] regarded as the natural dynamic extension of that of the librarian. - Douglas John Foskett

After a great deal of (quite valuable) discussion, the British accepted that ‘facet analysis’ must be the basis of a classification scheme able to meet the modern requirements.

Classification is thought of by many librarians as either a fearful complication of a very simply act, or an outmoded, almost prehistoric, method of doing a very complex mathematical task.

During... ten years the C.R.G. has met nearly every month, and although it has never had more than about a dozen active members, its influence has grown to the point at which is causes Mortimer Taube in America to rage over its medieval scholasticism, John Metcalfe in Australia to denounce it as a plot by Ranganathan to ruin librarianship, and a British University librarian to describe it as one of the two most significant developments in British librarianship since the end of the war.