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According to OCLC's Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification: One of Dewey's great strengths is that the system is developed and maintained in a national bibliographic agency, the Library of Congress. [...]LC's Camilla Williams, CIP and Dewey Program Manager, serves alongside EPC members representing major Dewey use centers worldwide in the U.K, Canada, and Australia, as well as U.S.-based members (several of which are nominated by the American Library Association).4 LC operations personnel use a number of operational tools to share data and analysis on what issues may require action by the EPC and review by individuals like me who work to offer additional feedback to use in the decision making process. [...]this description of the EPC from the Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification provides a good summary of the group's structure: EPC is a ten-member international board whose main function is to advise the editors and OCLC on matters relating to changes, innovations, and the general development of the Classification. According to the document, many groups were originally identified population-wise based on their native language. According to Wikipedia, the Mi'kmaq language is spoken by nearly 10,000 Mi'kmaq who live in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick regions in Canada (a small percentage of Mi'kmaq also live in Maine and Massachusetts in the U.S.).7 The word Mi' kmaq is a plural word meaning my friends.