1973 - 1978
"Charles Ammi Cutter, Melvil Dewey and the A. L. A." ALA Library History Round Table, ALA
Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nev., 1973.
"Cutter, Specific Engry, and Library of Congress Subject Headings." ALA, Library7 Research Round
Table, Chicago, Illinois, June 1978.
1981 - 1989
"Melvil Dewey and the Corporate Ideal." "Dewey: the Man and the Classification, a Seminar." New
York State Library, Albany, NY, December 11, 1981.
"Cutter and the Concept of the Subject." University of California, Los Angeles, May 10, 1982.
"The Subject Headings Systems of C. A. Cutter and J. C. M. Hanson.," University of California at
Berkeley, Colloquium session, September 22, 1983.
"Subject Referents and Subject Access Systems." California Cataloging Colloquium, Berkeley, California,
September 24, 1983.
"General Undergraduate Education and Education for Library and Information Science." ALISE,
Washington, D.C., January 1985.
"Knowledge Use and the Soul of the Modern Information Revolution." Colloquium, University of
Texas at Austin, GSLIS, Austin, Texas, February 14, 1985.
"Records Managers, Archivists, Librarians, &
Information Specialists: Their Domains in the Information Ages." (Oct. 1986) Annual meeting of the Association
of Records Managers and Administrators, Kansas City, Mo.
"The Melvil Dewey-George W. Cole Shorthand Notes of Lectures Given at the School of Library
Economy, Columbia College, 1887-1888." Library History Interest Group, ALISE, Chicago, Ill. January
1987.
"The Development and Current Status of Classification Theory and Method in Library and Information
Science." Seminars conducted at the OCLC-Office of Research (January 1987 and May 1987.)
"Research Patterns and Research Libraries" Directors of Research Libraries in OCLC, Annual Meeting,
March 30, 1987.; and University of Michigan, School of Information and Library Studies, May 13, 1987.
"Research Patterns and Research Libraries" May 13, 1987 University of Michigan, School of
Information and Library Studies.
"Information Access in 2011 A.D." 6th Texas Conference on Library Automation, Houston, Texas,
October 30, 1987.
"Developments in Modern Classification." International Conference on Information and Knowledge.
Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan. Nov. 13, 1987.
"An Interdisciplinary Approach to Classification." ASIST,
Annual Meeting, Boston, October 15, 1987.
"The Organization of Knowledge Records." Two lectures given before the School of Information and
Library Science, University of North Carolina, September 30, 1988.
"Academic Research Libraries and the Information Age." A presentation to the Library staff and the
School of Library and Information Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, November 11,
1988.
"Shifting Directions in LIS Classification." Conference on New Directions in Classification, State
University of New York at Albany, November 17-18, 1988.
"Classification." Two lectures given before the School of Library and Information Studies,
University of Maryland, College Park, Md., November 21, 1988.
"Cataloging Education in the Library and Information Science Curriculum." Simmons College
Symposium on Recruiting, Educating, and Training Cataloging Librarians," Boston, Mass., March 10-11,
1989.
"Future of Reference II: A Paradigm of Academic Library Organization." A presentation (with
respondents) to the staff of the General Libraries of the University of Texas at Austin and the Graduate
School of Library and Information Science, March 2, 1989.
"The Environment of Post-Secondary Education at the turn of the 21st Century." Remarks at a
symposium sponsored by the College and University Library Division of the Texas Library Association,
Houston, TX, April 13, 1989.
"Classification and Front-End Systems." Classification Research interest group, American Society for
Information Science, Mid-year meeting, San Diego, CA, May 22, 1989.
1990 - 1999
"Theory and Traditions in Bibliographic Control." ALISE, Technical Services Interest Group Chicago,
Ill., Jan. 1990.
"Subject Access for Slavic Materials." Western Slavic Association, Librarian's section Tucson, AZ,
March 1990.
"The Concept of the Universe of Knowledge and the Purpose of LIS Classification." 5th International
Study Conference on Classification Research. The University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
June 24-28, 1991.
"Issues in Formulating Library and Information Science History." ALA, Library History Round Table,
June 29-July 4, 1991. Atlanta, Ga.
"Library and Information Science: Two Paradigms." International Conference on Conceptions of
Library and Information Science. University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland. August 26-28, 1991.
"Rethinking the Subject Catalog: Time for a Paradigm Shift." Panel presentation at ALA, ALCTS, June
29-July 4, 1991. Atlanta, GA
"Historical ‘Firsts’ of the Universal Decimal Classification." Information Science History
Roundtable, American Society for Information Science, Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 1995.
"The Cultural Legacy of the ‘Modern Library’ for the Future." Association for Library and Information
Science Education, Annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, January 1996.
"The DDC, the Universe of Knowledge, and the Post-Modern Library." International Society for
Knowledge Organization, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., July 1996.
"The DDC, the Universe of Knowledge, and the Post-Modern Library," presented at the planning retreat
of the Dewey Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee and Personnel from the OCLC Office
of Research, Saratoga Springs, NY, 30 April 1997.
"LIS Research and a Sense of the Significant." Doctoral Students Colloquium, Florida State
University, School of Information Studies, March 16, 1999.
"Robert Flint’s Philosophy as Scientia Scientiarum and the Classification of Knowledge
in the 19th and 20th Centuries." A lecture delivered to doctoral students at Florida
State University, March 16., 1999
"Research in Cataloging and Classification: Basic Issues and Possibilities."
ALCTS Forum on Cataloging
and Classification Research, ALA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, June 27, 1999.
2002 - 2006
"Making a Case for an Integrated Approach to the Organization of Information." ALISE, New Orleans,
January 2002.
"The Future of Cataloging." Texas Library Association, Technical Services Round Table. Houston,
Texas. April 2003.
School of Information I-Forum—October 2003 "So You Want To Organize Information: Constraints
to our Generalizations about Organizing Information on the Web" [Repeated in the INF 391D.8:
Doctoral Research and Theory-I seminar, and also at the School of Library and Information Studies,
University of North Texas.]
"Classification in the Information Field and Classification in Other Fields."
ASIS&T, Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, November 2003
"What is a Single Information Entity?" Paper presented at a forum honoring Patrick Wilson. ASIS&T
Annual meeting, Providence, RI, November 2004.
"Humankind’s Knowledge: Classification of Knowledge and of the Sciences, Sociology of Knowledge,
and Karl Popper’s ‘World 3’" ASIS&T Annual meeting, Session: Outside Theory on the Inside of LIS,
Providence, R. I., November 2004.
"The Genius of Cataloging and its Probable Future," and “Traditions of Information Organization.”
University of Illinois, GSLIS, and the GSLIS ALA Chapter, March 2006.
"A General Approach to Information Organization." ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas,
November 2006.
[Besides the foregoing, Professor Miksa has conducted a considerable number of workshops for local
librarians in Louisiana and Texas over the years on matters related chiefly to new developments in
cataloging and classification.]