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 ...

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 ...

Penny Bailey. Library + Information Gazette, 19 October: 9. Amazon, ebay and other sites work on good old principles of of indexing and categorisation, so we must always retain these core basics while learning from their successes

A bibliography to help workers throughout the UK public sector as they plan implementation of taxonomies for use with Subject metadata. The bibliography has been prepared for Taxonomies in the Public Sector (TiPS), a discussion group which supports the Cabinet Office’s Metadata Working Group by encouraging information professionals in the public ...

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 ...

CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG) is running two half day seminars on Wednesday 26 Septpember 2007 at CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE Cataloguing fights back! They may be badged as metadata, ontology and taxonomy but the defining skills of the library profession are once again in demand. The challenge of organising and ...

Kemp, Randall B. (2007) Classifying marginalized people, focusing on natural disaster survivors. In Tennis, Joseph T., Eds. Proceedings North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2007 1, pages pp. 55-62, Toronto, Ontario. The marginalization of people through classification schemes results in inadequate access to information about ...

Pimentel, David M. (2007) Exploring classification as conversation. In Tennis, Joseph T., Eds. Proceedings North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2007 1, pages pp. 1-8, Toronto, Ontario. Conversations are proposed as a useful lens through which to consider knowledge-organizing behaviors. Human conversations are sites of knowledge ...

Feinberg, Melanie (2007) Beyond retrieval: A proposal to expand the design space of classification. In Tennis, Joseph T., Eds. Proceedings North American Symposium on Knowledge Organization 2007 1, pages pp. 31-43, Toronto, Ontario.  In information science, the creation of classification schemes has been more commonly described in the ...