It’s time again for all Dewey aficionados to get up at the crack of dawn in New Orleans and join us for the Dewey Breakfast/Update on Saturday, June 24, 7:00–8:30 a.m., in Morial Convention Center, Room 343. The breakfast will feature “WebDewey: Five Years Later,” a presentation by Andrea Kappler (Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library). Andrea first spoke about WebDewey at ALA Annual in San Francisco in 2001. In New Orleans, she’ll review her 2001 wish list, grade WebDewey improvements and shortcomings, and offer a vision for the future.
Juli Beall will follow Andrea with a short update on a research project she and Diane Vizine-Goetz of the Office of Research are working on to improve access to fiction for users who are primarily interested in finding a good story, regardless of format or literary form (what do Pride and Prejudice and Fantastic Four have in common?).
Please register to attend via the OCLC web site.
Dewey aficionados? Oh my, what kind of website have I stumbled upon :-P Actually, I'm a bit curious - what relationship to the OCLC does this blog have, if any?
And why, pray tell, after 130 years, hasn't something like this passed into the public domain, as relatively inconsequential as I imagine that would be in changing our world?
Posted by: Robert Nanders | 08 June 2006 at 09:48 PM