September 05, 2006
Vietnamese Edition of DDC Launched
A Vietnamese translation of the Dewey Decimal Classification and Relative Index, Abridged Edition 14, by the National Library of Vietnam has been released. The new edition was officially launched at a seminar in Hanoi on August 16, at which Assistant Editor Julianne Beall represented the Dewey team. This is the first complete translation of an edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) into Vietnamese.
Phyllis B. Spies, Vice President, Collection Management Services, said, "The Vietnamese edition joins an impressive set of Dewey translations that are available in every official IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) language as well as many others. In Dewey, concepts are represented by Arabic numerals; such language-independent representation facilitates adoption and use of the DDC around the globe."
Translations of the most recent editions of Dewey are available, under way, or under discussion in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
For more information, contact BCR's Linda Gonzalez (lgonzale@bcr.org).
