American Library Karlsruhe
The American Library is a branch library of the Stadtbibliothek Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe Public Library System). As a former U.S. Army Library, the institution is supported financially and in terms of staff by both the Stadtbibliothek Karlsruhe and the Friends of the American Library Karlsruhe e.V. Due to its history as a “community library” for U.S. soldiers and their families, the collection has always been arranged according to the DDC and corresponds to the holdings of a U.S. public library. The collection can be searched via the OPAC of the Stadtbibliothek Karlsruhe.
arthistoricum.net
arthistoricum.net (since 2012 an amalgamation of “ViFaArt – Virtual Library of Contemporary Art” and “arthistoricum.net”) is a portal shared by the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) and Heidelberg University Library and is operated in cooperation with the Institute of Art History at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich (chair held by Prof. Dr. Hubertus Kohle) and other partners. Thematic websites on various art-related subjects are indexed in the special catalogue: beginning with the medieval and more recent history of art in the European countries and European-influenced art in the USA, Canada and Australia, it moves chronologically from the early Christian era to 1945 and from there to contemporary art (from 1945), incorporating photography, graphic design and industrial design (with no time restrictions). DDC numbers are among the codes assigned for subject cataloguing purposes. Subdivisions of auxiliary tables 1 and 2 are in part also used to browse by geographic region and the period in history that the website content addresses.
DDC-DACHS exhibition
To commemorate the completion of the first German-language edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system in 2005, the Vienna University Library prepared a touring exhibition focusing on Melvil Dewey and DDC with the title “DDC-DACHS – Dewey Decimal Classification and the German-Speaking Countries”. The purpose of the exhibition was to draw the attention of both expert audiences and the general public in the German-speaking countries to the “Dewey dot” for the first time. From 2005 to 2008, the exhibition was shown at 12 locations in Austria and Germany. (Link to the exhibition website)
Contact: events.ub@univie.ac.at
Library of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development
The library of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin is a specialised science library. It provides access to print and electronic media for fundamental research in the fields of adaptive behaviour and cognition, developmental psychology, science of education and educational systems, the history of emotions, the sociology of life events, and related areas. The library’s collection of monographs currently encompasses around 211,000 volumes. It has been using DDC for classificatory cataloguing purposes since 2003, and books in the reference collection are shelved according to DDC.
Contact: engelhardt@mpib-berlin.mpg.de
Library of the Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
The library of the Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, is an internal museum library that focuses on art, history, archaeology, natural science, coins/medals, museology and museum education and features a large collection of media relating to playing cards.
The collection of around 20,000 units is shelved using DDC; the catalogue, which is part of the museum database Museum+ and cannot be searched online, is also indexed with the aid of DDC.
Contact: biblio.allerheiligen@stsh.ch
Libraries of the Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn
The Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn is made up of nine departments (Indology, Islamic Studies, Japanese and Korean Studies, Mongolian and Tibetan Studies, Asian and Islamic Art History, Oriental and Asiatic Languages, Religious Studies, Chinese Language and History, South-East Asian Studies) and twelve libraries with a total collection of more than 250,000 volumes. The Institute is one of the largest university institutions of its kind in Germany. DDC 22 has been used for shelving in all departments since May 2009.
Contact: lamparth@uni-bonn.de
bioDDC
BioDDC is used to catalogue new accessions in the special collections of biology, botany and zoology media at the University Library in Frankfurt am Main. It is also used to catalogue internet resources at the Virtual Library of Biology (vifabio) and is a variation of DDC Abridged 14 modified especially for this purpose. It is fully compatible with DDC but dispenses with complex built numbers. The numbers used are limited to around 400 base numbers and approximately 130 geographic subdivisions.
Contact: G.Kasperek@ub.uni-frankfurt.de
Frankfurt Educational Research Library of the DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
The Frankfurt Educational Research Library of the DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF) is one of the largest specialised education libraries in the German-speaking countries with a collection of around 220,000 media. Its collection focuses on empirical and comparative educational research, educational science and educational psychology. Since 2013, the classificatory cataloguing processes and open-access shelving have been switched step by step from Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) to DDC.
Freie Universität Berlin: Library of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
With around 900,000 media units, the Library of the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies has Germany’s largest collection of works on North America, and the range of subjects covered is unique in continental Europe. Along with philological works, it also collects media that focus on sociology, politics, history, culture and economics in the USA and Canada. Special attention is paid to microforms. A wide variety of newspapers, for example, are collected with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and archived on microfilm. Almost the entire collection is freely accessible and shelved systematically. DDC has been used for this purpose since 2000. A large part of the collection is available for borrowing. The library is also part of the nationwide interlibrary lending network.
History Guide of the Lower Saxon State and University Library Göttingen
The History Guide, a specialised catalogue that indexes historiographical internet resources at the Lower Saxon State and University Library Göttingen, contains data on websites relating to the historical sciences. Subject cataloguing is carried out using DDC base numbers (excluding built numbers) and subdivisions from auxiliary tables 1 and 2.
Contact: enderle@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de
Mittweida University Library
Mittweida University Library has been classifying its open-access holdings in accordance with DDC since approx. 2012 and also uses DDC as its shelving system. The (historical) holdings of the branch library “Social Work” are currently being re-classified from DK to DDC.
Contact: Jörg Geske (director of Mittweida University Library); Nadja Röder
University Library of Zurich University of Applied Sciences
The University Library of Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) consists of three specialised libraries at the sites in Winterthur (architecture, applied linguistics, health, engineering, business and law), Wädenswil (life sciences and facility management) and Zurich (applied psychology and social work). The open-access holdings at the University Libraries in Winterthur and Wädenswil are classified and shelved using DDC.
Contact: christine.prohaska@zhaw.ch
Cantonal Library of Thurgau
The Cantonal Library of Thurgau in Frauenfeld has been classifying its open-access holdings in accordance with DDC since August 2003 and also uses DDC as its shelving system.
Contact: vicente.gamio@tg.ch
Krünitz Encyclopaedia
As part of a digitalisation project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Trier University Library is compiling an electronic full-text version of Johann Georg Krünitz’ Economic Encyclopaedia, which was published between 1773 and 1858 in 242 volumes.
It is using DDC to classify all the lemmas and images in this work, which encompasses more than 140,000 pages. This facilitates the development of a subject-based structure and an overview of related content that was impossible in the printed edition because of its volume and the lengthy period over which it was published.
In 2005, Trier University Library began cataloguing another historic technical work (Das Buch der Erfindungen, Gewerbe und Industrien [The Book of Inventions, Commerce and Industry], Leipzig 1896–1901) with the aid of DDC and is using Dewey classification in the development of an information portal on the history of encyclopaedic reference works. (Link to project page)
Contact: seifert@uni-trier.de
N-Zyklop
N-Zyklop is a project by Trier University Library that is constantly being expanded and consists of a database of encyclopaedias of all eras and nations. Secondary forms (reprints, microfiche, microfilm, CD-ROM, DVD and online editions) are linked with the original books
Along with formal searches by author, title keywords, publication dates and places, and publishers, N-Zyklop offers several types of subject-based search access. German and English keywords have been assigned to all data records, which have been catalogued using the first 1,000 DDC classes.
Contact: seifert@uni-trier.de
Upper Austrian State Library Linz
The Upper Austrian State Library in Linz :(founded in 1774, until 1998: Federal State Reference Library) is a general scientific library with a collection that currently consists of approximately 400,000 media units. It was extensively converted and expanded between 2007 and 2009, and has been using DDC to shelve its open-access collection ever since it reopened. This decision was made in summer 2006, and the open-access area contains not only older reference works but also almost all the media acquired since then (around 10,000 volumes a year)
Contact:. julian.sagmeister@ooe.gv.at
Search engine BASE
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is a service provided by Bielefeld University Library that facilitates DDC browsing through the first three hierarchical levels of the DDC system in order to search for documents. When browsing by document type, the search results can be narrowed down further by using DDC numbers, for example. These DDC numbers are assigned using an automatic classification process; however, data sources that already contain DDC numbers are also used.
Mainz University Library: US Studies Library
Mainz University Library: US Studies Library collects literature and information covering many subjects relating to the United States of America, focusing on social sciences, culture and history. Its collection is based on the holdings from the former Camp Lindsey Library in Wiesbaden, which was presented to the University of Mainz in 1993.
Its reference collection currently encompasses around 60,000 monographs, which are freely accessible and shelved using DDC; it also contains a wide range of – mostly digital – newspapers, periodicals and databases.
Contact: hagenmaier@ub.uni-mainz.de
OPUS (Publication Server of the University of Stuttgart)
OPUS (Publication Server of the University of Stuttgart) is a software for university publication servers and institutional repositories that manages electronic publications. Users can choose from various access options, including entry via DDC sorting.
Graphic: Tina Mengel
