I'm pleased to announce that the editorial team will now be requesting feedback on potential changes from a larger audience—that is, you!
As I mentioned in my blog post FAQs of a New Dewey Editor, the primary job of the editors is to research publishing trends and make suggestions about potential changes to the Dewey schedules and tables. Once we've completed our research, we publish those suggestions in an exhibit, which is simply a document that summarizes our research and makes an argument for revising the DDC. A few times a year, we bring these exhibits to the Editorial Policy Committee (EPC), a group of ten people representing libraries from around the world. The EPC gives feedback and votes on whether to implement the changes that the editors propose.
We'll now be sharing those exhibits with a wider audience: everyone who has Internet access, in fact! You can now find the most recent exhibits we've shared with EPC at oc.lc/DeweyExhibits. To be clear, these are proposals and may not be implemented as written. EPC often requests changes (large and small), or asks editors to revise entirely, before exhibits are approved.
We’ll be pleased to hear your feedback on this initial group of exhibits, which covers topics such as space flight and travel, birds, Montenegrin language, asexuality, Two-Spirit people, and a notation for optional arrangement of the 200s. Voting by the EPC members on this group of proposals begins on Monday February 25, so if you have comments, please send those to us at [email protected] before that date.
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