The Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee (EPC) held Meeting 126 at the Library of Congress October 11-13. On October 11, the first item of business was the election of vice chair. In an action EPC chair Deane Zeeman (Library and Archives Canada) called “the Commonwealth strikes back,” Anne Robertson (Australian Committee on Cataloguing) was re-elected to a two-year term as vice chair.
I doubt that there is any meeting in the world that includes the following items for consideration in one six-hour period: Semantic Web, Internet telephony and VOIP, GIS and GPS, political parties of Austria and Switzerland, fountains and cloisters, Sardinian and Corsican languages and literatures, qi gong, and sarcoidosis. We’ll be releasing updates to records associated with these topics (and some new numbers) to users over the next few months.
We spent a lot of time reviewing proposals related to groups of people throughout the DDC. EPC heartily endorsed our proposal to transform the caption at T1—08 from the mouthful “History and description with respect to kinds of persons” simply to “Groups of people.” Now that the top-level plan has been approved in principle, we plan to address the naming conventions for groups of people throughout the DDC. We also plan to change the caption at T1—092 from “Persons treatment” to “Biography” (the category itself will retain its current scope).
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