Past events
Visit to The London Library
CILIP Cataloguing & Indexing Group visit to The London Library, 14 St James's Square’ London, SW1Y 4LG , 14.00-16.30 on Thursday 1st May (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.
Cataloguing fights back!
CIG STANDARDS SEMINARS
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
CILIP Cataloguing & Indexing Group visit to Lindley library, Royal Horticultural Society on 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 and the other RHS libraries at Wisley, Harlow Carr, Hyde Hall and Rosemoor.
Visit to UCL Library Services
Thursday 7th Feb. 2008
2.00 - 4.30 p.m.
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.
CIG Standards Forum
A CIG Seminar held at CILIP HQ, Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE
Wednesday 26 September 2007
About the Event
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 integrating information across the spectrum of media from incunables to mash-ups is stimulating a profound change in bibliographic standards. "RDA: Resource Description & Access" is a content standard for the semantic web as much as for the library. RDA will replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules in 2009. National exchange formats, like UKMARC, have had their day. Libraries and bibliographic agencies are adopting international standards, such as MARC 21, for better interoperability with industry standards such as XML and UNICODE.
Changing the record: Moving to MARC 21 - Thinking about whether, when and why to change to MARC 21? This presentation covered the benefits and features of MARC 21, and migration and implementation issues. Intended for those in public libraries and others who are considering making the change.
CIG Standards Forum: this seminar presented the latest news on the major standards in the library world and gave updates on recent changes to MARC 21 and Dewey Decimal Classification and reports on how the AACR/RDA work is progressing. Speakers: Corinne Deliot, Gordon Dunsire, Ann Chapman and Alan Danskin.
42nd AGM on 26th September 2007
Cataloguing and Indexing Group
42nd Annual General Meeting
16:15 - 17:00pm on Wednesday 26th September 2007
CILIP HQ, Ridgmount Street, London
1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of 41st Annual General Meeting
3. Matters arising
4. Annual report Apr. 2006-Mar. 2007
5. Treasurer's report
6. Councillor’s report
7. Appointment of independent examiners for Group Accounts
8. Motions
9. Any other business
Updated: 02 June 2008