"Shelf-ready" event
Held on 5th December 2011
This one-day event looked at the practical realities of implementing shelf-ready stock with speakers from both academic and public libraries. Aimed both at those who do not use shelf-ready and those who want to improve their current practices, discussions covering the steps libraries had taken when moving towards shelf-ready stock ranged from EDI invoicing, cataloguing, classification and workflow issues. Whether the supervisor of a whole team, a one person cataloguing department or moving from project to project this event afforded an opportunity to explore the different approaches taken by both university and public libraries and to learn from the speakers’ practical experiences.
The Twitter feed from the event is available as a downloadable document:
Shelf-ready event Twitter feed (PDF, 78 KB)
Visit to The Imperial War Museum’s Library Collections
Held on 22nd November 2011.
An exploration of the collections and services at the Imperial War Museum’s Library collections, including images, objects, books and publications, sound and film recordings and documents covering all aspects of twentieth and twenty-first century conflict involving Britain, the Commonwealth and other former empire countries, with a closer look at cataloguing and classification. The visit afforded an opportunity to learn about specialist library collections, to explore cataloguing and classification practices at a museum library and to develop professional networks by meeting other library and information services workers.
E-forum on reclassification
Held on 26th and 27th September, 10 am - 5 pm.
This e-forum enabled discussion on reclassification both specifically and generally. Though the e-forum debated reclassification generally, on the morning of Tuesday 27th September the floor was opened up to a specific discussion about DDC23 under the helm of special guest moderator, Gill Cooper. The e-forum finished with a debate about the future of classification and reclassification and asked whether classification is even relevant in twenty-first century libraries.
CIG Reclassification Event - 20th September 2011
Held on 30 September 2011
This interesting day event was held at Cilip HQ and well attended with 26 delegates and 5 speakers. The event is discussed on the C&I Blog.
Royal Cornwall Museum’s Courtney Library
Held on 18 July 2011.
The Courtney library houses around 150,000 items covering the history of Cornwall from the prehistoric to modern period as well as collections of archives of Cornish families and original files and microfilmed copies of local and regional newspapers. This visit explored the library’s cataloguing and indexing practices, the collections and services of the library, and also something about Cornish heritage and history, in addition to providing an opportunity to develop professional networks by meeting other library and information service workers from the region.
Retrospective Cataloguing Event
This one day conference, held at CILIP HQ, London, on 9 June 2011 was aimed at managers responsible for retrospective cataloguing, cataloguers dealing with the challenges of retrospective cataloguing and anyone considering a retrospective cataloguing project large or small. Whether the supervisor of a retrospective team, a one person cataloguing department or moving from project to project this event gave the opportunity to explore the different approaches taken by national, university and special libraries and to learn from the speakers’ practical experiences.
Visit to the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The Library, Art & Archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens is one of the most important botanical reference sources in the world. It contains more than half a million items, including books, botanical illustrations, photographs, letters and manuscripts, periodicals, biographies and maps.
Although the visit focused on the types of cataloguing taking place at the library, the visit also included a tour of the library, reading room and special collections area.
Visit to the Anthropology Library, British Museum
The Anthropology Library is part of the Centre for Anthropology of the British Museum and holds one of the world's major anthropological collections. The library contains approximately 120,000 books and pamphlets, 4,000 journal titles, a pictorial collection of over 150,000 photographs and other visual material, microforms, maps, sound recordings, newsletters and congress reports.
The visit concentrated on the types of cataloguing encountered at the museum but also included a tour of the library.
Two visits to the London Library
Two visits to the London Library in St James Square were held at 10.00 am and 2.30 pm on 10 November 2010.
Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference 2010:
"Every cloud has a silver lining? Cataloguing in interesting times"
Held at Exeter University, The CIG conference 2010 web pages are available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/CIG/2010/conf-exeter/programme/
In these days of recession and financial stringency, some cataloguers are under clouds and others are computing in them. The 2010 CIG conference will look at the pressures facing the cataloguing community, ways of working through them and how some current developments arising from difficult circumstances may signal the way of the future. The keynote paper by CILIP President Biddy Fisher and the CIG Standards Forum are followed by papers on a wide range of subjects (management of cataloguing workflow, the need for retrospective cataloguing, metadata for repositories and for research assessment purposes, LCSH & the 'wisdom of cataloguers' and bibliographic records in a networked world) and the group AGM.
Visit to the Law Society Library
Held on Tuesday, 3rd August, starting at 3.00 pm.
The visit to the 19th century galleried library designed by Lewis Vulliamy examined how an unchanged environment could efficiently house a team delivering 21st century legal information services to solicitors, including a collaboration with LexisNexis to provide the Law Society Library Online.
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Visit to Courtauld Institute of Art
Held on 3 June 2010.
The visit included a tour of the library including information about the history of the library; a discussion about managing cataloguing workflow in this small, higher-education library; a presentation on the challenges of cataloguing art historical materials; an account of the Courtauld Classification Scheme and details of the on-going project to update the scheme. The visit will conclude with tea, coffee and biscuits.
Kingston University Archives visit
Held on 14 April 2010.
The visit to the Kingston University showcased some of the items from the collection held by the archive and provide opportunity to discuss the challenges of cataloguing both the books and archive materials of this and other collections, including The Iris Murdoch Collection and Vane Ivannovich Collection. In 2009 the archive acquired the books and papers of renowned theatre critic Sheridan Morley (1941-2007). These include his collection of books as removed from his home, running into many thousands of volumes plus personal papers and other items such as volumes of press cuttings of his reviews; research notes for many of his biographies including that of Noel Coward; correspondence with many actors including John Gielgud, Alec Guinness and others.
CIG Workshop on Authority Control:
"A. Rose, by any other name"
Including an introduction to authority control, the role of authority control in resource discovery from the user perspective, retrospective authority control, co-operative name authority data: the LC/NACO Authority File and perspectives on future developments.
Visit to the Wellcome Library
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group arranged a visit to the Wellcome Library held on 7th August at 2.00 pm.
The visit included a tour of the varied collections on the history of medicine, a talk on current digitisation projects and an overview of cataloguing activities.
Visit to St Paul's Cathedral Library
An account of the visit to St Paul's Cathedral Library by some lucky CIG members (and others) on Friday 10th July is now available on the Catalogue and Index Blog.
Visit to Chetham's Library, Manchester
The CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group is organised visit to Chetham's Library, Manchester, on Thursday 11th June, 2.45-4.00.
Chetham's Library was founded in 1653 and is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world. The visit will include a tour of the building and a look at its varied collections.
Umbrella 2009 Conference:
"Making connections: the power of people, partnerships and services"
Held at University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, 14 - 15 July 2009.
CIG was part of the "event of the year" for library and information professionals, presenting sessions on:
Transition to RDA: Resource, Description and Access (Alan Danskin, British Library)
Bibliographic Standards Forum, including, MARC 21 Update, and, Dewey Decimal Classification 23rd Edition (Alan Danskin and Caroline Kent, British Library).
Visit to King's College London
CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group visit to the Maughan Library, King's College London, held on Thursday 23rd October, 2008, 2.00 - 4.30 pm. (Free)
King’s College London is a multi-faculty research-led university and also the largest centre for the education of doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals in Europe. Information Services and Systems are responsible for 6 individual libraries based in campuses in Central and South London. This visit aimed to give an insight into how cataloguing is managed in the joint acquisitions and cataloguing department and covered topics including authority control, subject indexing, retrospective and gift cataloguing, and data entry in non-Roman script. The visit ended with a short tour of the Maughan Library.
Cataloguing and Indexing Group Conference 2008:
“Classification and subject retrieval in the 21st Century”
The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 3 – 5 September 2008
The CIG conference 2008 web pages are available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/CIG/2008/conf-glasgow
135 years after Melvil Dewey first had the idea for his classification scheme and with the exponential growth of new information storage and retrieval systems we are still wrestling with finding the right way to get things in order – on the shelves and in those very systems – and then to enable people to find them when they search. This conference intended to explore current developments in classification and subject retrieval. The conference programme covered both the longstanding methods – such as traditional classification schemes – right up to social networking and ‘bleeding edge’ ideas. The conference also included the CIG AGM and Annual Standards Forum.
Visit to The London Library
CILIP Cataloguing & Indexing Group visit to The London Library, 14 St James's Square’ London, SW1Y 4LG , held on Thursday, 1 May, 2.00 - 4.30 pm. (Free)
Visit to this fascinating library which is now the world's largest independent lending library. Over 95% of the collections, which now number some one million volumes, is stored on some 15 miles of open-access shelves which may be freely browsed, and over 97% is available for loan. With books dating from the 16th century to the latest publications in print and electronic form, the Library has sought to be contemporary in every age. Although concentrated on cataloguing and classification the visit will included a tour of the collections
CIG Standards Seminars
Held on Wednesday, 2 April 2008.
Two CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG) half-day seminars took place on Wednesday 2 April 2008 at Staff House, University of Manchester. The morning session focusd on MARC 21 and the afternoon one was devoted to the CIG Standards Forum.
Full details at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/CIG/2008/standards/
Visit to Lindley Library
Lindley library, Royal Horticultural Society visit held on 21st February, 2.00 - 4.30 pm. (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 and the other RHS libraries at Wisley, Harlow Carr, Hyde Hall and Rosemoor.
Visit to UCL Library Services
Held on Thursday, 7th February 2008, 2.00 - 4.30 pm. (Free)
UCL is a multi-disciplinary research and teaching institution with departments spanning the arts, humanities, social and physical sciences, law and medicine. Library services maintain 15 individual libraries including Special Collections, plus a large store in Essex. This visit aimed to give an insight into how cataloguing is managed across the service, and offered the chance to see some of our rarer holdings.