Dewey Decimal Classification: News and New Views

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Dewey Decimal Classification News and New Views

• Dewey Users Group
• January 15, 2005
• ALA Midwinter

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Agenda

• Product Update Libbie Crawford
• Dewey Update Joan S. Mitchell
• WebDewey Giles Martin
• Research Diane Vizine-Goetz
• Graphic Novels Julianne Beall
• Discussion

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New Products

• DDC 22
• Abridged 14
• Principles and Application
• 200 Religion
• WebDewey and Abridged WebDewey

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Whats New with Dewey

• Joan S. Mitchell
• Editor in Chief, DDC
• OCLC
• Saturday, January 15, 2005
• ALA MW Boston

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Outline

• Dewey Retreat
• DDC Review Updates
• Terminology Mappings
• Translations
• Staff News

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Dewey Retreat

• Role of Editorial Policy Committee
• Knowledge Organization Research
• Literary Warrant
• Editorial Tools
• Editions and Translations
• Licensing
• WebDewey and Abridged WebDewey
• Dewey Users
• Structure of the DDC

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Structure of the DDC

• Comprehensive and Interdisciplinary Numbers
• Reference Structure in the Relative Index
• Approximating the Whole
• Dual Sets of Standard Subdivisions
• Dual Headings

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Dual Headings

• Examples
• 270 Historical, geographic, persons treatment
  of Christianity Church history
• (Table 1)
• 085 Relatives Parents

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Dual Headings

• Solutions
• 270 Historical, geographic, persons treatment
  of Christianity
• Class here church history
• (Table 1)
• 085 Relatives
• Class here parents

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DDC Review Schedule www.oclc.org/dewey/discussion
/reviewschedule.htm

• Advance notice to Dewey users about upcoming
  studies and updates
• Links to discussions and updates

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Upcoming Reviews Updates

• 340 Law
• Terrorism
• Miscellaneous updates to 370 Education
• Graphic novels
• Historical periods in the Abridged Edition
• Area table expansions (Indonesia, Mexico,
  Portugal)
• Segmentation (Discussion paper in February)

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Terminology Mappingswww.oclc.org/dewey/updates/nu
mbers/default.htm

• Canadian Subject Headings (December 2003- )
• LCSH from non-US libraries in the SACO Project
  (Weekly Lists 2004, no. 1- )
• LCSH from Australia, Canada, Ireland, Lithuania,
  New Zealand, Singapore, and UK in 2004

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Translations Arabic

• Meeting in Cairo next week to plan for DDC 22
• Coordinated in Egypt
• Advisory board with representatives from across
  the region

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Translations French

• ASTED will publish French translation of Abridged
  Edition 14 in early 2005
• Electre recently completed work on Guide de la
  Classification dècimale de Dewey
• Planning underway for web and print versions of
  DDC 22

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Translations German

• Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB) working on web and
  print versions of DDC 22
• Michael Preuss visited LC in July 2004
• Lars Svensson visited OCLC in October 2004
• April 2005 workshop in Frankfurt in advance of
  publication

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Translations Swedish

• December 2004 meeting with representatives of the
  Royal Library of Sweden
• April 2005 workshop in Stockholm to introduce DDC
  and plan for translation

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Translations Vietnamese

• Translation of Abridged Edition 14
• April 2004 working visit to LC by Vu Van Son
• March 2005 advisory board meeting in Hanoi

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Dewey Staff News

• Gregory New retired in April 2004
• Jonathan Furner will join Dewey editorial team in
  April 2005

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EPC News

• Anne Robertson, Australian Committee on
  Cataloguing, elected vice-chair
• OCLC working with Sabinet Online Standards
  Committee to select first South African EPC
  member
• Bylaws under review
• Changes to terms (length and term limits)
• Corresponding members