CILIP has published a consultation paper on the funding of its Special Interest Groups (of which CIG is one) and Branches. You can find it at http://www.cilip.org.uk/aboutcilip/howcilipworks/council/boards/workinggroups/fundingworkinggroup/discussionpaper.htm The closing date for responses is 18 September and the CIG committee would welcome ...

The CIG AGM will take place at 16:30hrs on Thursday 4 September 2008 on the John Anderson Campus of the University of Strathclyde. All CIG members are welcome though it would be helfpul if any member wanting to attend the AGM but who is not registered as a delegate for the CIG conference (during which the AGM takes place) would contact the ...

Classification and subject retrieval in the 21st century: You can't make jelly without a mould. CIG conference The University of Strathclyde 3 - 5 September 2008           The CIG conference 2008 web pages are now available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/CIG/2008/conf-glasgow/ and online ...

Bookings are now open for two CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG) half-day seminars, both taking place on Wednesday 2 April 2008 at Staff House, University of Manchester. The morning session will be on MARC 21 and the afternoon will be devoted to the CIG Standards Forum. Full details and booking form at ...

21st February, 14.00-16.30 Free. The Lindley Library is the best gardening library in the world, essential for horticulture, garden history and gardening. It contains over 50,000 volumes, 400 current journals, 29,000 drawings,and a large collection of seed and nursery catalogues. Discover the challenges of cataloguing material for this library ...

24 January 2008. start: 14.30, finish: 16.30. tea and coffee provided by NLS Enjoy a chance to speak to the team working with the John Murray Archive with regards to cataloguing issues.  Come and see some interesting items from the archive and view the current exhibition held in George IV Bridge building. NLS/JMA website is at: ...

Seminar organised by the Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland  10.30-16.00 21 Feb 2008 NLS Causewayside Building Edinburgh   Programme:  10.30-11.00: Registration and coffee  11.00-11.30: ''If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?'': Introduction and ...

CILIP’s Cataloguing & Indexing Group (CIG) invites nominations for the Alan Jeffreys Award. The Alan Jeffreys Award was established by the CIG in memory of its former Chairman, who died in 1994. It is to be awarded to a person or persons who have made a significant contribution to Librarianship within the Group's field of ...

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS  “Classification and subject retrieval in the 21st Century” You can’t make a jelly without a mould. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow 3-5 September 2008 135 years after Melvil Dewey first had the idea for his classification scheme and with the exponential growth of new information storage and retrieval ...

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 ...