''The final programme of DC-2008, to be held from 22 through 26 September in Berlin, is expected to be published on 14 July. The early bird discount will be available until 31 July 2008. Please go to the registration page to register for the conference, tutorials and seminars.'' ~ DCMI News 2008-07-07

Confronting the Future: organising and managing information in the Web 2.0 age 17.30-20.00, 5 March 2008 University College London Cost - free; booking required At this meeting, Paul Dodgson (Records Management Society of Great Britain) will describe where he sees the increasingly important Records Management function going in the coming years ...

Peter Bond, an expert on communities of practice, is organising regular Knowledge Cafes in central Liverpool at the Ship and Mitre pub, which is situated at the museum end of Dale Street, near John Moores University. The first KCafe is on Tuesday 26th June (6pm for a 6.30pm start, until 9pm). (Talking KM, which also has further details)

The Organizing Committee of DC-2007, to be held in Singapore from 27 through 31 August 2007, has published the preliminary program for the conference. Keynotes will be given by Johannes Keizer, team leader for Semantic Standards in the Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

The inaugural meeting of ISKO UK will take place on 26 March at UCL. Potential members are welcome to attend. Full details here ''The quotation in the title, attributed to Samuel Johnson, goes on to say''If it rained knowledge I'd hold out my hand; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it.'' This neatly sums up what appears to ...

The presentations from this conference in Iceland at the beginning of the month are now at http://ru.is/kennarar/thorag/cataloguing2007 Quite a lot on FRBR including a good summary of the basics in Barbara Tillett's piece. Which is now attracting a lot of comment on at least the MARC:loc.gov discussion list list as a result of what she allegedly ...

registration forms and information about the UDCSeminar 4-5 June 2007 are available at http://www.udcc.org/ (Originally posted by Andrew Coburn at http://catalogueandindex.blogspot.com/2007/02/international-seminar-on-udc-4-5-june.html )

Via MARC@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV The following papers are available for review by the MARC community:Proposal No. 2007-01: Definition of subfields $b and $j in field 041 inthe MARC 21 Bibliographic Formathttp://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2007/2007-01.html Proposal No. 2007-02: Incorporating invalid former headings in 4XX fieldsof the MARC 21 Authority ...

Ariadne asked the CIG Committee to find them a reporter on this year's conference. Read what University of Oxford Graduate Trainee David Bennett had to say:David E. Bennett. 'Immaculate Catalogues, indexes and monsters too...'. Ariadne, 49.(Originally posted to the test blog on 30/10/2006 and retained as a useful, live link).

'More, Better, Faster, Cheaper'Download mp3 files of papers including:KeynoteMark Dimunation (Chief of Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress)''Most of us in this room hold substantial arrearages of research materials that are inaccessible, because they lack some level of cataloging description. Most of us, including this ...