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The DDC 23rd Edition (2011): an Appraisal


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The 23rd edition of the DDC, earlier scheduled to be published in 2010, was delayed by about a year to be released in May 2011 in the 135th year of its first publication in 1876. That small pamphlet published anonymously very soon puck like girdled the world, as if it was being awaited. Since then, save a brief period of 1950s, it has been on an ascending path of progress scaling new heights and covering new territories at home and abroad. Though counted among the big three library classification systems (the other two being the UDC and the (LCC); it has surpassed them in its popularity, simplicity and use. Now it is well entrenched in Europe too where since 2007 "European DDC User Group" (EDUG) has been officially established. Used in about two lac libraries in 130 countries in six continents, and in sixty national and trade bibliographies,its official translations exist or are under way in more than thirty major languages of the world.
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M. P. Satija
Emeritus Fellow, GND University, Amritsar 143005
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  • Dewey Decimal Classification and the Relative Index/Devised by Melvil Dewey, 23rd ed./ed. By Joan S. Mitchell; Julianne Beal, et al, assistant editors. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 2011, 4v. ISBN-13:976-1-910608-81-4 (set) EDUG http://www.slainte.org.uk/edug/india.htm.

  • Satija (M P). The theory and practice of the DDC system. Oxford, U.K.: Chandos, 2007. Xix, 206p. http://www.oclc.org/dewey/025.431. The Dewey blog (http://www.typepad.com/).

  • National Information Standards Organization. Guideline for the construction, format and management of monolingual controlled vocabularies: Bethesda, MD: NISO Press 2005 (ANSI/NISO.Z39.19-2005)

  • Green (Rebecca). “see also relationship in the Dewey Decimal Classification” Kng Org. 38(4)2011:335-341.


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M. P. Satija
Emeritus Fellow, GND University, Amritsar 143005, India

Abstract


The 23rd edition of the DDC, earlier scheduled to be published in 2010, was delayed by about a year to be released in May 2011 in the 135th year of its first publication in 1876. That small pamphlet published anonymously very soon puck like girdled the world, as if it was being awaited. Since then, save a brief period of 1950s, it has been on an ascending path of progress scaling new heights and covering new territories at home and abroad. Though counted among the big three library classification systems (the other two being the UDC and the (LCC); it has surpassed them in its popularity, simplicity and use. Now it is well entrenched in Europe too where since 2007 "European DDC User Group" (EDUG) has been officially established. Used in about two lac libraries in 130 countries in six continents, and in sixty national and trade bibliographies,its official translations exist or are under way in more than thirty major languages of the world.

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