Back in 2015, Nepal adopted a new constitution. Among other things, it divided the country into seven provinces. The provinces were initially unnamed, and the provincial legislatures were tasked with selecting permanent names for themselves.
A few years later, librarians from Nepal contacted the Dewey editorial team at an IFLA conference to request provision for the provinces in Table 2. At the time, there was just a single notation for the country at T2—5496.
Initially, we thought to wait until all seven provinces had names, but after further correspondence with librarians in Nepal, we drew up a development providing official names where available and numbers for the rest. Five of the seven provinces now have names. The Editorial Policy Committee approved the update, so you’ll now see the following for Nepal in WebDewey:
As you’ll see, we’ve also provided numbers for the named provinces, for consistency’s sake. Once the remaining two provinces receive names, we’ll provide them and remove the numbers from the captions, though we plan to keep index terms like “Province No. 1 (Nepal)” in the WebDewey Relative Index.
Note that while T2—5496 is still the notation for comprehensive works on the Himalayas, Mount Everest has been continued to T2—54961.
I’d like to thank the volunteers who helped with this development, including the librarians and education ministry officials from Nepal who thoroughly reviewed the proposal and suggested improvements.
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