Conferences and workshops

Selected presentations from past conferences

Periodically, OCLC sponsors conferences and workshops to provide librarians and others who work with the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system with opportunities to learn about new editions of the DDC, new products for using the DDC and other related topics. Frequently, these events coincide with major library conferences to make your travel more efficient and economical. Watch for news of upcoming events.

Here are selected presentations from past conferences:

World Library and Information Congress, 75th IFLA General Conference and Council, Milan - August 25, 2009

• UDC/DDC crosswalk developed by the Czech National Library for the purpose of collection assessment
  (PowerPoint - 2.68 MB)
• Classifying Photographs for the World Digital Library: Draft Guidelines
  (PowerPoint - 3.27 MB)
• DDC Update:Formats, WebDewey 2.0, and Linked Data
  (PowerPoint - 859 KB)

ALA Annual, Dewey Breakfast Update - July 11, 2009

• Design of the new web version of the DDC
  (PowerPoint - 931.5 KB)
• Representation of DDC in MARC 21 Bibliographic Format: An Update
  (PowerPoint - 463 KB)
• What Does It Mean to "Use Dewey"?
  (PowerPoint - 3.4 MB)
• Dewey Summaries as Multilingual Linked Data
  (PowerPoint - 2.2 MB)

North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization - June 19, 2009

Melvil Dewey's Ingenious Notational System
(PowerPoint - 294 KB)

The Ethics of Information Organization Conference - May 22, 2009

MARC 21 Bibliographic Format Field 083, Racially Mixed People, and DDC Table 5, Ethnic and National Groups
(PowerPoint - 805.5 KB)

University of Vienna - April 29, 2008

The DDC at Universitätsbibliothek Wien
(PowerPoint - 5.70 MB)

Texas Library Association Conference - April 2, 2009

What Does It Mean to "Use Dewey"?
(PowerPoint - 11,526 KB)

ALA Midwinter 2009

• More than Lists of Changes: Tracing the history of DDC concepts
  (PowerPoint - January 24, 2009)
• Rethinking Meals
  (PowerPoint - January 24, 2009)
• 780 Music
  (PowerPoint - January 24, 2009)

World Library and Information Congress, 74th IFLA General Conference and Council, Québec City

• Dewey Training Materials FAQ (August 2008)
• EDUG (August 2008)
• Extensions to the Representation of the DDC in MARC 21 Formats (August 2008)
• Updates to Groups of People and Literary Periods (August 2008)

10th International ISKO Conference

• Making Visible Hidden Relationships in the Dewey Decimal Classification: How Relative Index Terms Relate to DDC Classes (August 2008)
• Mixed Translation Models for the DDC (August 2008)

ALA Annual 2008

• Groups of People (June 2008)
• Literary Periods: Pseudonyms and Canadian Literature in English (June 2008)
• From Heteroglossia to Polyglottism: Multilingual MelvilClass (June 2008)

World Library and Information Congress, 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council, Durban, South Africa

• High-Level Thesaurus (HILT) Project: Recent Work (August 2006)
• Extensions to the Representation of the DDC in MARC 21 Formats (August 2006)
• Mixed Translations (August 2006)

ALA Midwinter 2007

• Dewey Hot Topics (January 2007)
• Dewey Translations: An Overview (January 2007)
• DDC in Germany: Recent Developments and Current Activities (January 2007)

DDC Editorial Policy Committee Meeting, October 2006

• UDC/DDC Harmonization Project: Religion (October 2006)
• DDC Translations: An Overview (October 2006)

World Library and Information Congress, 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council, Seoul, Korea

• Dewey in Authority Files (August 2006)
• Linking DDC Numbers to the New "Soggetario Italiano" (August 2006)
• CrissCross (August 2006)
• DDC 14th Abridged Edition Vietnamese Translation Project (August 2006)
• Swedish switch to DDC (August 2006)

9th International ISKO Conference

• The New Ecumenism: Exploration of a DDC/UDC View of Religion (July 2006)

Workshop zur DDC als Aufstellungssystematik

• Comparing DDC and LCC Shelf Arrangement (July 2006)
• DDC Number Building for Shelf Arrangement (July 2006)

ALA Annual 2006

• The Evolution of Dewey & WebDewey (June 2006)

Colloque International sur la Médiation de la Bande Dessinée en Bibliothèque, April 2006

• 741.5 or graphic novels in the DDC (April 2006)

ALA Midwinter 2006:

• Dewey Decimal Classification: News and New Views (January 2006)
• Dewey Hot Topics (January 2006)

DDC Editorial Policy Committee Meeting, October 2005:

• Bibliographic Standards in South Africa (October 2005)
• WebDewey and ESS (October 2005)

American Association of School Librarians Conference, 2005:

• DDC Update (October 2005)
• Dewey Hot Topics (October 2005)

Dewey Translators Meeting at IFLA 2005:

• DDC Update (August 2005)
• DeweyBrowser (August 2005)
• Options in Religion (August 2005)

ALA 2005:

• Dewey Decimal Classification: News & New Views (June 2005)
• Graphic Novels (June 2005)
• Research Update (June 2005)
• Subject access to cultural objects (ALA/ALCTS, June 2005)

ALA Midwinter 2005:

• Dewey Decimal Classification: News and New Views (January 2005)
• What's New in WebDewey and Abridged WebDewey (January 2005)
• Graphic Novels (January 2005)

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