Dewey Hot Topics

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Dewey Hot Topics

• Joan S. Mitchell
• Editor in Chief, DDC
• OCLC
• Saturday, January 21, 2006
• ALA Midwinter Meeting
• San Antonio, TX

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Topics

• Table 3C 3
• Options in Religion
• Editorial Projects
• Translations
• EPC
• Staff Changes at LC

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Table 3C 3

• Move occupational and religious groups from
  3528 to the occupation or religion, e.g.,
  3557 Education (and teachers),
  38297 Islam (and Muslims)
• Provide for all areas of the schedules
• Change preference order for persons

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New Table 3C 3 Numbers

• 34 Language
• . . .
• 3578 Music
• 3579 Recreational and performing arts
• . . .
• 39 Computer science, information, general works

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Change in Preference Order

• Specific persons 351
• Specific kinds of persons 352
• Historical and political themes 358
• Life cycle 354
• Social themes 355
• Artistic, recreational, literary themes 357
• Technical themes 356
• Human characteristics and activities 353

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Options in Religion

• Survey Results
• Proposed New Option
• Future Directions

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Survey Results

• Which option, if any, does your library
  use? Response Response Total
• None 79.2 42
• A 5.7 3
• B 5.7 3
• C 9.4 5
• 53 (3 didnt answer)

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Survey Results (continued)

• For which religion is option used? 7
  Respondents
• All (B, C)
• Islam (A, No option noted)
• Christianity (A)
• Mormons (No option noted)
• Other religions or religious mythology (C)

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New General Option Based on UDC

• Vacate 220-290
• Arrange religions in chronological/regional order

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UDC Class 2 Revision

• 21 Prehistoric and primitive religions
• 22 Religions of the Far East
• 23 Religions of the Indian Subcontinent
• 24 Buddhism
• 25 Religions of antiquity. Minor cults and
  religions

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UDC Class 2 Revision (continued)

• 26 Judaism
• 27 Christianity
• 28 Islam
• 29 Modern spiritual movements

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Future Directions

• Develop crosswalk between optional and standard
  view
• Make optional arrangement available as browsing
  view of religion for all DDC users
• Explore optional arrangement as basis for future
  framework of 200 Religion

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Editorial Projects

• Table 1
• Table 2 (Indonesia, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil,
  Denmark, UK)
• 300 Social sciences (301-307, 350, 360)
• 700 The arts (schools/styles/periods,
  iconography, digital photography and
  cinematography)
• New editorial support system

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Translations

• French Abridged 14 published in 2005
• German print DDC 22 published in October 2005
• German web version released January 2006
• Vietnamese and Italian translations of Abridged
  14 will be issued in early 2006
• Planning underway for DDC 22 in Arabic, French,
  Italian, and Spanish
• National Library of Sweden exploring use of Dewey

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EPC

• Deane Zeeman (Library and Archives Canada) new
  chair of EPC
• Anne Robertson (Australian Committee on
  Cataloguing) continues as vice-chair
• Andrea Kappler (Evansville Vanderburgh Public
  Library) new member

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LC Dewey Staff

• Nobuko Ohashi retired January 3, 2006
• Ruth Freitag retiring February 2006
• Cross-training among staff members
• Exploration of machine-assisted methods