Cataloguing & Indexing Group Conference 2008 – preliminary announcement

Next year’s conference of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG) will be in Glasgow in September 2008. The exact venue and dates are to be confirmed but this is a chance to consider giving a paper/ presentation.

The plan for the conference is to explore current developments in classification and subject retrieval. We hope to cover both the longstanding methods – such as traditional classification schemes - right up to social networking and ‘bleeding edge’ ideas. We would like to have contributions from all parts of the spectrum – how you are helping your users to access the catalogue and your collections using whatever tools are at your disposal or a more academic look at the theory that might enable us to improve subject access.

If you think you might have something to contribute let me know. There will be a formal call for papers when the venue and dates are confirmed.

Andrew Coburn

CIG Chair

andrew.coburn@essexcc.gov.uk