EPC Meeting 124, chaired by Andrea Stamm (Northwestern University Library, Evanston, IL), got off to a cracking start yesterday. Deane Zeeman (Library and Archives Canada) was elected EPC chair for 2006-07. Since Anne Robertson, from the Australian Committee of Cataloguing, is vice-chair for 2005-06, the new election means that for the first time both positions of chair and vice-chair will be filled by people from outside the US. Meeting 124 is also notable for being the first at which South Africa is represented, by Welna van Eeden (University of South Africa Library, Pretoria).
Several decisions were taken that will be reflected in updates to WebDewey over the next few months. We plan to roll out shortly an update to Table 3C—3 Arts and literature dealing with specific themes and subjects with provisions for more topics and notes clarifying the preference order. EPC approved our plans to create explicit Table 5 entries for North and South American native peoples, and Welna van Eeden has asked us to do the same for African peoples. We had a lively discussion about preference order in Table 1 for —092 Persons over —08 History and description with respect to kinds of persons, and explored the possible addition of notation derived from —08 to numbers for the treatment of works on collected persons in —092. The full implications of the latter suggestion are yet to be worked out, and much further investigation is necessary -- including discussions with you, dear readers. (More bloggery on that shortly.) And then: we turned to the treatment of graphic novels. Everyone will be back for more on 741.5 today.
In the evening, our dinner
was in honor of Jan DeSirey (Southdale Popular Library, Edina, MN) whose period of
service on EPC is coming to an end. Jan (fifth from left in the picture) has been with us since January 1996, and
we are all truly sorry to see her leave. From the resolution in recognition of her service: "Whereas Jan DeSirey ably represented the public
library viewpoint from cataloging and public service perspectives for the
preparation and publication of Abridged Edition 13 (1997), Edition 22 (2003), and
Abridged Edition 14 (2004) of the Dewey Decimal Classification, and
participated in the resolution of substantive issues of classification; ... helped fellow committee members grapple with graphic novels; and ... traveled by train from Minnesota to DC many times armed with her comments to share with colleagues; ... Be it resolved that the members of the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee ..., the DDC editors, and staff at the Library of Congress Decimal Classification Division and OCLC express to Jan DeSirey their deep gratitude and appreciation for her service and commitment to the Committee and the Classification, their regret that she will no longer be one of their number, and their wishes for her continued success and happiness now that she has retired from the Committee."
"...both positions of chair and vice-chair will be filled by people from outside the US...." I wonder what countries were present?
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