On 01/06/07, Karen Coyle <kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> Project Gutenberg appears to have an 1876 copy of the DDC. I have my own
> copy of the 1899 one. (BTW, its class number is 025.4 ;-)) It would be
> interesting to figure out which is the latest version that is out of
> copyright... if I get a chance I'll look into that. But unfortunately I
> fear that anything more than 50 years old will be too far out of date to
> be useful.
We have DDC-20 at work, and it can be, er, very fun trying to use even
a moderately out-of-copyright Dewey. Real stumpers I have hit so far
include "postmodernism" and "global warming" - the latter, I found
today, we have split between "air pollution" in the 300s and
"climatology" in the 550s.
(This is leaving aside the huge, huge leaps in, eg, IT. And geography,
for that matter. "21st century history of the Soviet Union"...)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray_at_dunelm.org.uk
Received on Fri Jun 01 2007 - 15:39:16 EDT