The Dewey Decimal Classification 2024 print-on-demand version is here

By Charlotte Wells

We’re pleased to share that the 2024 print-on-demand version of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system is now available. The DDC is the world’s most widely used way to organize library collections and is continuously updated to reflect the modern world across any topic in multiple languages. The print-on-demand version provides offline access to the DDC.

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As knowledge expands and as languages evolve, the DDC is updated with new terminology to promote a culture of empathy and spotlight the importance of diversity. It covers topics comprehensively so that your library remains a place of acceptance and enables your patrons to discover your materials quickly and efficiently.

What's new?

More respectful terminology has been added for: 

• Groups of people  
• LGBTQ+ topics 
• Autism 
• Gender dysphoria 

Modernized coverage of: 

• Climate change
• Immigration, emigration, and migration within borders
• Home care of people with illnesses and disabilities

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Is an electronic version of the DDC more useful for your library? Check out WebDewey.

Comments

[Abhishek]

Hi Alex
I know about library classification
But I want to know
How all universities of the world
Divide entire known human knowledge

I mean they must be using classification schemes to divide departments of subjects
And design curriculum

If you can research of it
Ask some professors about it
And tell me
Please help me I really want to know about it

Thanks

[Alex]

Abhishek, this is a good question, but there isn't an easy, quick answer. There is some scholarship surveying use of different classification systems across institutions, but that's not easy work to do, so there isn't as much of it as I'd like.

While scholars probably become familiar with "their" part of the library, I'd actually be surprised if academic faculty lean very heavily on library classification systems in curriculum planning. But that's a great example of how library data can be of wider benefit as we open up via linked data.

[Abhishek]

So is there no way to help me out

Can you please think
If you have any Source from which you can know about it

I really want to know

Please help me

[Alex]

I would recommend consulting with an academic librarian, perhaps one associated with a library and information science school.