Currently the exhibition of Thomas Jefferson Library collection is now located at the second floor of the Jefferson Building at the LOC. It is part of the collection that Jefferson sold his books to LOC in 1815.
The most intersting part of this particularly collection is the "classification" of the book. The classification scheme is BEFORE Dewey Classifiction Scheme. The books have been arranged in an order that Jefferson described as "sometimes analytical, sometimes chronological, and sometimes a combination of both." Jefferson followed a modified version of the organization of knowledge created by British philosopher Francis Bacon (1581-1626). The books were divided into categories of "Memory," "Reason," and "Imagination." Jefferson intepreted as "History," "Philosophy," and "Fine Arts." He then further divided the categories into forty-four "chapters."
I believe that is the earliest library classification scheme we can find.
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