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In spring 2013, the ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich) library management gave out the job of revising the library's web portal. This job seemed attractive as the work promised to produce immediately visible results because the revision procedure was expressly meant to be carried out as quickly as possible. Surveys and the daily work with the clients had shown that improvements were necessary and that adjustments to new usage trends had to be carried out. The following report describes the thoughts on the revision and the measures considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on a June 2007 meeting at the Swiss National Library in Bern on the topic of the use of the Dewey decimal classification (DDC) in Europe. The system has been adopted for the "World Digital Library." A proposal was made to found a common European DDC Users' Group (EDUG) to gain more influence over the system's future development.