1 EPC Exhibit 135-9.5 May 11, 2012 the LIBRARY of CONGRESS Dewey Section To: Caroline Kent, Chair Decimal Classification Editori

EPC Exhibit 135-9.5 May 11, 2012

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Dewey Section

To: Caroline Kent, Chair Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee

Cc: Members of the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee Karl E. Debus-López, Chief, U.S. General Division

From: Michael Panzer, Assistant Editor Giles Martin, Consulting Assistant Editor Winton Matthews, Consulting Assistant Editor Dewey Decimal Classification OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

Via: Joan S. Mitchell, Editor in Chief Dewey Decimal Classification OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc

Re: T2—943 Administrative divisions in Queensland

At the last EPC meeting, Anne Robertson asked the editorial team to look at the changes in local government areas (LGAs) in the Brisbane region. She later elaborated that although it is her view “that with the availability of the Australian Standard Geographic Classification the Statistical Divisions are the most stable units for the eventual Table 2 revisions of Australia as a whole: the National Library has no desire to undertake this at present. What is required is a revision of Table 2 for Queensland to reflect the recent amalgamations, and comprehensive indexing for national parks, new cities such as the Gold Coast so that the correct area table is applied etc.” The exhibit gives background information concerning a possible development incorporating the LGAs.

LGAs used to subdivide Queensland in Table 2

The existing subdivision of T2—943 Queensland into districts is based on the local government boundaries as they existed about 30 years ago, although the local government areas are not actually named in the table. However, as you work through the map and index entries in Australia DDC Area Table and Index (published by the National Library of Australia in 1982, and used by DDC from Edition 19 onwards), the use of LGA boundaries becomes clear. (That publication is cited as “the NLA index” in this exhibit.)

If you look at the introduction to the 1982 NLA Index, you find that the districts were based on “Shire boundaries (statistical divisions)” used in 1941. Those statistical divisions are not administrative units, but were used for statistical purposes, and are documented in the contemporary publications of the Queensland Government Statistician. In particular, they are documented in the 1941 issue of the Queensland Yearbook, available on the Web at: http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/0/ABC4CA2AC7651B5ECA257749001A89C3/ $File/13013%20-Qld%20YrBook%20-%201941.pdf In that publication, the LGAs in each statistical division are listed on pages 29–31, and there are maps on pages 254 and 255. That publication has 13 statistical divisions, while T2—943 divides into 8 regions, by grouping some statistical divisions together, and by also separating Brisbane from the rest of Southeast Queensland.

Here is a table comparing the 1941 statistical divisions with T2—943:

1941 Statistical Divisions DDC Table 2 South Moreton —9431 and Brisbane metropolitan district and Queensland —9432 Southeastern district Maryborough —9432 Southeastern district Downs —9433 Downs district Roma —9434 Southwestern district South Western —9434 Southwestern district Central Rockhampton —9435 Central district Queensland Central Western —9435 Central district Far Western —9435 Central district North Mackay —9436 Northeastern district Quensland Townsville —9436 Northeastern district Cairns —9436 Northeastern district Peninsula —9438 Peninsula and Torres Strait Islands North Western —9437 Northwestern district

Over the 70 years since 1941 there have been several changes in LGAs in Queensland, and the index to the 1982 NLA publication reflects the first 40 years of those changes.

There was a major reorganization of local government boundaries in Queensland in 2008, when most LGAs in Queensland were amalgamated. This proposal deals with the impact of that reorganization on T2—943, and proposes some relocations to ensure that each LGA is at one Table 2 notation. Maps of the LGAs are available at: http://www.regional.gov.au/local/publications/index.aspx and maps of individual local government areas are at: http://www.oesr.qld.gov.au/products/maps/qld-lga-asgc-2011/index.php

All LGAs given in the development

It is also proposed that each LGA be named in T2—943 so that the exact extent of each district is clear to users. Currently the districts in T2—943 are not well-defined in DDC Table 2 or in the Relative Index, and it is necessary to find some details in the NLA index. However, as Giles found, that publication does contain some inconsistencies. The LGAs defining the districts will be listed in the first including note, except for T2—9431, where it is proposed that they be listed in the caption.

Form of name of the LGAs

A variety of sources were used to cross-check names of LGAs, including Wikipedia, the Queensland local government directory at http://www.dlgp.qld.gov.au/local-government- directory/ , and the maps listed above. Three issues were found:

• Hope Vale Aboriginal Shire is sometimes referred to as “Hopevale” (one word). “Hope Vale” is the form used on the council’s website http://www.hopevale.qld.gov.au/ and in most other sources. • The Torres Strait Island Region was referred to as “Torres Strait Islands Region” (with an “s” after “Island”) in Wikipedia. At the suggestion of one of us, this was changed while this exhibit was being written. All other sources, including the regional council’s website http://www.tsirc.qld.gov.au/ , use the singular “Island”. • Weipa is not strictly a local government area (being run by Rio Tinto Alcan under its own act), so it does not appear on some lists of LGAs.

For the form of name in Table 2, the form used in the Queensland local government directory, but with the word “Council” left off, since Table 2 is about places and not corporations. For example, it has “Cairns Region” instead of “Cairns Regional Council”. If you leave off the name of the type of LGA, the name often becomes ambiguous. For example, “Brisbane” is often used to denote the Brisbane metropolitan area, which is much larger than the incorporated city. On the other hand, for Australia Post “Brisbane” means the 4000 postcode area, which is only the 3

Brisbane CBD. The use of “city” to indicate an administrative unit, not a metropolitan area, is similar to that use in Scotland, England, and New Zealand and is explain in the two Manual notes at “T2—41 and T2—42 Scotland and England” and “T2—93 New Zealand”. A similar new Manual note for “T2—943 Queensland” will be developed.

For the form of name in the Relative Index, we will generally use the heading established by the National Library of Australia. However, the NLA has not created authority records for most LGAs, and has some inconsistencies in usage. In cases of doubt, we will follow the Libraries Australia guidelines for establishing Australian local government authorities ( http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/training-support/manuals-guides/establishing-name- authorities/establishing-local-govt-authorities/ )

Specific entries for some LGAs

We also did some checking of literary warrant using the FAST database at http://fast.oclc.org/ and have proposed some expansions based on that. The warrant that we found is given in the following table, where the column headed “Localities” gives the places in the LGA where significant literary warrant was found. For example, in the Tablelands Region the warrant is that for Atherton and Atherton Tableland added together -- Tablelands Region does not have an entry in the FAST database. We expanded for each LGA with warrant over 350, and for all the LGAs bordering on Brisbane or on Ipswich, and in the notation we left gaps for the other LGAs in case of future expansion.

LGA Localities Brisbane City Brisbane, Moreton Island 12,086 Gold Coast City Coolangatta, Gold Coast, Southport, Surfers Paradise 1,782 Townsville City Magnetic Island, Townsville 1,652 Sunshine Coast Region Caloundra, Maroochydore, Noosa Heads, Sunshine Coast 1,492 Rockhampton Region Mount Morgan, Rockhampton, Yeppoon 1,448 Fraser Coast Region Fraser Island, Hervey Bay, Maryborough 1,188 Torres Strait Islands Region Thursday Island, Torres Strait Islands 1,118 Toowoomba Region Toowoomba 1,068 Cairns Region Cairns 1,055 Ipswich City Ipswich 715 Mackay Region Mackay 655 Gladstone Region Gladstone 557 Bundaberg Region Bundaberg 514 Moreton Bay Region Caboolture, Redcliffe 451 Weipa Weipa 428 Tablelands Region Atherton, Atherton Tableland 398

Redland City North Stradbroke Island, Redland 369 Gympie Region Gympie 357 Isaac Region Clermont 346 Charters Towers Region Charters Towers 307 Mount Isa City Mount Isa 305

National parks

The current development gives many national parks. It is our understanding that national parks have a different meaning in Australia than in the United States, where we have both national and state parks. Australia doesn’t make the distinction in the same way. Most “national parks” are run by the states, including the oldest national park, the Royal National Park, established as the “National Park” by the colony of New South Wales before Australia was a nation and before Yellowstone was a “national park”. The national parks that were given when the current development was introduced in 1982 were those that would potentially have publications about them. For this proposed development, those parks were retained and no new parts were added.

Proposed relocations From To T2—9431 T2—94323 Eastern part of Ipswich City T2—9432 T2—94312 Former Caboolture Shire T2—9432 T2—94316 Southern part of Logan City T2—9432 T2—94318 North Stradbroke Island T2—9435 T2—94328 Former Monto Shire T2—9435 T2—9433 Division 2 of former Taroom Shire T2—9436 T2—9435 Former Nebo Shire T2—9436 T2—9438 Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire T2—9437 T2—9438 Pormpuraaw Aboriginal Shire

Proposed expansions From To T2—9431 T2—94312 Moreton Bay Region T2—9431 T2—94314 Brisbane City T2—9431 T2—94316 Logan City T2—9431 T2—94318 Redland City T2—9432 T2—94321 Gold Coast City T2—9432 T2—94322 Scenic Rim Region T2—9432 T2—94323 Ipswich City T2—9432 T2—94324 Lockyer Valley Region T2—9432 T2—94325 Somerset Region T2—9432 T2—94326 Sunshine Coast Region T2—9432 T2—94328 Wide Bay-Burnett Region T2—9432 T2—943282 Gympie Region T2—9432 T2—943284 Fraser Coast Region T2—9432 T2—943285 Bundaberg Region T2—9433 T2—94332 Toowoomba Region T2—9435 T2—94357 Rockhampton Region T2—9435 T2—94358 Gladstone Region T2—9436 T2—94361 Mackay Region T2—9436 T2—94364 Townsville City T2—9436 T2—94367 Cairns Region T2—9436 T2—94368 Tablelands Region T2—9438 T2—94386 Weipa T2—9438 T2—94389 Northern Peninsula and Torres Strait Islands

T2—9431 One LGA is entirely in T2—9431:

• Brisbane City

T2—9431 and T2—9432 These LGAs are split between T2—9431 and T2—9432:

• Ipswich City The eastern part of the LGA is presently in –9431, and the western part (including the Ipswich CBD) is in –9432. I recommend that the eastern part be relocated so that all the LGA is in the T2—9432. (If we don’t do that, then area T2—9432 will be almost split into two parts by T2—9431.) • Logan City The northern part of the LGA (including Logan Central) is presently in –9431, and the southern part (including what was formerly part of the former Beaudesert Shire and what was formerly part of Gold Coast City) is in –9432. I recommend that the southern part be relocated so that all the LGA is in the T2—9432. • Moreton Bay Region This is the third largest LGA in Australia by population. The southern part (the former Redcliffe City and former Pine Rivers Shire) is presently in –9431, and the northern part (the former Caboolture Shire) is presently in –9432. (Elimbah, at the extreme north of the LGA, is given as –9433 by the NLA index, but that is probably an error – the adjoining LGAs are still in –9432.) I recommend that the northern part be relocated so that all the LGA is in T2—9431. (The northern part had about 40% of the population of the new LGA at the 2006 census.)

• Redland City The mainland part of the LGA is presently in –9431, and North Stradbroke Island is apparently in –9432. (The island itself is not in the NLA index, but some settlements on the island are.) I recommend that North Stradbroke Island be relocated so that all the LGA is in the T2—9431.

With the relocations given above, T2—9431 will consist of Brisbane City, Logan City, Moreton Bay Region and Redland City. I recommend that the caption for T2—9431 be changed to reflect this, since the current caption “Brisbane metropolitan district” is ambiguous, and could be interpreted to include parts of the LGAs in T2—9432.

T2—9432 These LGAs are entirely in T2—9432:

• Bundaberg Region • Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire • Fraser Coast Region • Gold Coast City The NLA index gives Oxenford as –9431, but this is probably an error, as Coomera (on the Brisbane side of Oxenford) is –9432.

• Gympie Region • Lockyer Valley Region • Scenic Rim Region • Somerset Region The NLA index gives Fernvale and Glamorgan Vale as –9431, but these are probably errors, since they aren’t consistent with neighboring suburbs of Brisbane. • South Burnett Region • Sunshine Coast Region

T2—9432 and T2—9435 One LGA is split between T2—9432 and T2—9435:

• North Burnett Region The northern part of the LGA, which until LGA amalgamation in 2008 was Monto Shire, is presently in –9435, and the rest is in –9432. I recommend that the former Monto Shire be relocated so that all the LGA is in T2—9432.

T2—9433 These LGAs are entirely in T2—9433:

• Goondiwindi Region • Southern Downs Region • Toowoomba Region

T2—9433 and T2—9435 One LGA is split between T2—9432 and T2—9435:

• Western Downs Region (known as Dalby Region 2008-2009) All of this Region is currently in –9433 except for the part formerly in Taroom Shire, which was split is 2008, with the part centered on Taroom joining Banana Shire and the part centered on Wandoan joining this LGA. It is recommended that this latter part be relocated from T2—9435 to T2—9433.

T2—9434 These LGAs are entirely in T2—9434:

• Balonne Shire • Bulloo Shire The NLA index gives Hungerford as –9435, but this is clearly an error. • Maranoa Region (known as Roma Region 2008-2009) • Murweh Shire

• Paroo Shire • Quilpie Shire

T2—9435 These LGAs are entirely in T2—9435:

• Banana Shire • Barcoo Shire • Boulia Shire • Central Highlands Region • Gladstone Region • Longreach Region • Rockhampton Region • Winton Shire • Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire

T2—9435 and T2—9436 One LGA is split between T2—9435 and T2—9436:

• Isaac Region The northern part of the LGA, which until LGA amalgamation in 2008 was Nebo Shire, is presently in –9436, and the rest is in –9435. I recommend that the former Nebo Shire be relocated so that all the LGA is in T2—9435.

T2—9436 These LGAs are entirely in T2—9436:

• Burdekin Shire • Cairns Region • Cassowary Coast Region • Charters Towers Region • Hinchinbrook Shire • Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire This is in the NLA index as “Kowanyama”. However, the assignment of –9436 there is inconsistent with the boundary drawn on the map on page 8 of the NLA index – according to that map it should be in the northern corner of —9437. I suggest that it be relocated, but to –9438, where the other LGAs on the northern part of Cape York Peninsula are found. • Mackay Region • Palm Island Aboriginal Shire • Tablelands Region

• Townsville City • Whitsunday Region • Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire This is not mentioned in the NLA index under its current name or under the former name of Bloomfield River Mission, but it is clear from the map on page 8 of the NLA index that it belongs in –9436, and not in –9438 which starts immediately north of this LGA. • Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire

T2—9437 These LGAs are entirely in T2—9437:

• Burke Shire • Carpentaria Shire • Cloncurry Shire • Croydon Shire • Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire • Etheridge Shire • Flinders Shire • McKinlay Shire • Mornington Shire • Mount Isa City • Pormpuraaw Aboriginal Shire This is in the NLA index as “Edward River (Aboriginal Reserve)”. However, the assignment of –9437 there is inconsistent with the boundary drawn on the map on page 8 of the NLA index. I suggest that it be relocated to T2–9438. • Richmond Shire

T2—9438 These LGAs are entirely in T2—9438:

• Aurukun Shire • Cook Shire • Hope Vale Aboriginal Shire (or Hopevale Aboriginal Shire) • Lockhart River Aboriginal Shire • Mapoon Aboriginal Shire • Napranum Aboriginal Shire • Northern Peninsula Area Region • Torres Shire • Torres Strait Island Region

• Weipa

Draft changes to T2—943

—943 Queensland

Class here *Great Barrier Reef

—943 1 Brisbane metropolitan district Brisbane City, Logan City, Moreton Bay Region, Redland City

Former heading: Brisbane metropolitan district