EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN The use of the DDC at the Swiss National Library Patrice Landry Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Overview of presentation Short history of the use of the DDC at the SNL Freihand-Bibliothek / Open stack collections Special development for the SLA authors collection Schweizer Buch / The Swiss Book Use of the DDC in Switzerland

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Short history of the use of the DDC at the SNL Decision in 1999 to adopt the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) for the library classification needs: open stack collections and organisation of the national bibliography Critical issues in the SNL decision: - DCC translations in French, Italian and …prospect of a German edition! - Staff training - Library users perception

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Implementation process Training: six months training program (3 months individual / group exercises followed by a week long course by Library and Archives Canada instructor + 3 months DDC work under supervision and group revision) Application: Development of call numbers according to the different collections Design and translation of the National bibliography DDC organisation Promotion and instruction: Staff of the library Other libraries in Switzerland

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Freihand-Bibliothek / Open Stack collections Forschungsbibliothek Schweiz (FBCH): A collection of about 20’000 Helvetica documents Lesesaal /Reference room collections: 5’000 reference documents SLA (Schweizerisches Literaturearchiv): 10’000+ documents on Swiss literature (primary and secondary literature)

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Open stacks collections call numbers Call numbers using the segmentation process (maximum 10 digits) Use of DDC numbers in existing bibliographic records in OCLC WorldCat, LoC and national bibliographies (about 30%) Work done by staff of the SNL Indexing Service

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Classification principles for the open stack collections Call numbers built according to DDC instructions Limited use of « options », only in law (340) and subject bibliographies (not under 016) Re-use of DDC notations from external sources (i.e. OCLC) Only the literary collection (SLA) used a modified approach (for authors collection)

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN SLA literary authors collection – call number requirements Basic question: how to group under each author the corpus of work of different literary forms? The traditional approach of the DDC is to class a single work in one form (i.e. drama, poetry, fiction) by an individual author with the form In the SLA collection, the requirement was to group all the works of a particular author under that author

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN SLA Call number: an example Friedrich Dürrenmatt

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN DÜRR/2 1ab 830 = Literatur in germanischen Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur.91 = (Zeit / time period) DÜRR = Dürrenmatt, Friedrich /2 = Drama 1 = Einzelband / single work ab = Abendstunde im Spätherbst (Titel)

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Further development of the call number Type of work can be organised separately: 1 for single work, 2 for selected works, 3 for collected works, 4 for critical works on the author, etc. Translation of an individual work is classed with the original work:

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Das Schweizer Buch: Schweizerische Nationalbibliografie The organisation of the bibliography according to the DDC was done for the 2001 edition (for its 100 anniversary) Decision to organise the bibliography according to the DDC 100 categories The 100 categories headings displayed in 5 languages (German, French, Italian, Rhaeto- Romanic and English)

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Online version since 2006 Decision to offer a free online access to the bibliography (following the example of many national libraries) Looked at how the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek had organised their bibliographies (common approach in the DDC access to these national bibliographies) Looked at how the DDC had been used in accessing the Swiss bibliography to determine if more precise classes should be added

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Results of the study Four main classes accounted for almost 75% of documents listed (300, 600, 700 and 800) Documents listed in the following 10 classes accounted for about 47% documents listed: 150 (2%) 330 (6%) 340 (6%) 360 (6%) 610 (8%) 620 (2.5%) 790 (3%) 830 (8%) 840 (3%) 910 (2%)

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Changes to the DDC organisation of the bibliography in 2006 Broader approach in Philosophy (100, 130, 150), in Religion (200, 220, 230 and 290) More precise use of the DDC: 004, 791, 792, 793, 796 and retaining and Can be accessed at:

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Use of the DDC in Switzerland Since the translation of the DDC in German, more libraries are using the DDC in Switzerland Mostly specialised and cantonal libraries Presently no coordination between libraries The Swiss National Library gives support and training to libraries

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Concluding remarks After 10 years of use in the SNL, the DDC is well accepted by users and indexers Project underway to look at the use the DDC in the organisation of the SNL’s Bibliographie der Schweizergeschichte Study in 2010 to look at extended use of DDC in accessing bibliographic records at the SNL

EDUG DDC Symposium 2009, Vienna, 28 April 2009 Patrice Landry Département fédéral de l'intérieur DFI Office fédéral de la culture OFC Bibliothèque nationale suisse BN Thank You Danke