Michael Panzer, formerly Assistant Editor, has been named the 10th Editor-in-Chief of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system. Michael Panzer, who becomes the first DDC Editor-in-Chief from outside the United States, replaces Joan S. Mitchell, who has retired after serving with distinction in the position since 1993. Michael joined OCLC […]
Read full post…Monthly Archive for January, 2013
– a pretty unique “unconference” for all librarians and librarylovers – from Amsterdam to Brussels: 18.-26. June 2013 This year we are doing about 400km and visit Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft, Gent and The European Parliament in Brussels. And each and every one of the the places in between 🙂 The […]
Read full post…Issue number 46 (December 2012) of the Cataloguing & Indexing Section Newsletter has been published. Contents include reports from WLIC 2012 in Helsinki and the IFLA Namespaces Technical Group, a look forward to WLIC 2013 in Singaport, and news and updates from UDC, DDC, and the Library of Congress.
Read full post…The seventh annual meeting of the European DDC Users Group will be held at the National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway, on 11 April 2013. The meeting will be followed by a symposium Building the future of DDC: Translations, technology and transition 2003-2013 at the National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway, on 12 April […]
Read full post…Joan Mitchell, editor in chief of the Dewey Decimal Classification, has announced her retirement with effect from 18 January 2013. Joan has been working with the Dewey editorial team since 1993, and has overseen the very successful development of the classification scheme and its supporting infrastructure through the evolution of […]
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