Juli and I spent last week at the 9th International ISKO Conference in Vienna (watch for more on that meeting next week). Just prior to the conference on July 4, Juli participated in a one-day DDC Workshop held in conjunction with the 10th Conference of the German Chapter of ISKO. At the request of workshop organizer Dr. Margit Sandner (Universitätsbibliothek Wien), Juli presented two talks focused on number building, shelf arrangement, and comparisons between DDC and LCC: Comparing DDC and LCC Shelf Arrangement and DDC Number Building for Shelf Arrangement. These presentations may be of interest to new users of the DDC, people unfamiliar with the use of classification systems for physical shelf arrangement, and people curious about some of the differences between DDC and LCC.
The DDC Workshop took place in the same room as DDC-DACHS: Die Dewey-Dezimalklassification under der deutschsprachige Raum, a traveling exhibition of DDC-related material that has been organized by Dr. Sandner (we blogged about the exhibit last December. Dr. Sandner gave us a personal tour of the exhibition during the conference—it was fascinating.
Here’s a photo of Dr. Sandner standing by the case containing a copy of Edition 8 from 1913 that was used by the former librarian of Vienna's British Council Library. Just to Dr. Sandner's right (but sadly not documented in the photo) are the fabulous torte, strudel, and coffee that accompanied our tour.
The second photo is a post-dessert shot of Juli and me standing near copies of the German translation of DDC 22, Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation und Register (for more information on the German translation, see the DDC Deutsch web site and our discussion here a few months ago).
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