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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)

Articles from the DDC newsletter

Twice each year, OCLC published Dewey Decimal Classification News to provide comprehensive news updates of interest to libraries that use the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. It included product news, summary reports from the Editorial Policy Committee and other related topics. Typically distributed in print at the American Library Association's two major conferences each year, it also included news of interest to conference attendees.

• August 2011 IFLA Congress issue (PDF file, 316KB)
• June 2011 ALA Annual Conference issue (PDF file, 273KB)
• January 2011 ALA Midwinter Meeting issue (PDF file, 271KB)
• August 2010 IFLA Congress issue (PDF file, 294KB)
• June 2010 ALA Annual Conference issue (PDF file, 271KB)
• January 2010 ALA Midwinter Meeting issue (PDF file, 245KB)
• August 2009 IFLA Congress issue (PDF file, 238KB)
• July 2009 ALA Annual Conference issue (PDF file, 277KB)
• January 2009 ALA Midwinter Meeting issue (PDF file, 286KB)
• June 2006 ALA Annual Conference issue (PDF file, 2.1MB)
• IFLA 2005 Conference issue (PDF file, 5K)
• June 2005 ALA Annual Conference issue (PDF file, 1.6MB)
• January 2005 ALA Midwinter Meeting issue (PDF file, 225K)
• June 2004 ALA Annual Conference issue (PDF file, 228K)
• January 2004 ALA Midwinter Meeting issue (PDF file, 32K)
• June 2003 ALA Annual Conference issue (PDF file, 863K)
• January 2003 ALA Midwinter Meeting issue (PDF file, 421K)