CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Conference 2006

"Immaculate Catalogues: taxonomy, metadata and resource discovery in the 21st century"

University of East Anglia at Norwich, 13th - 15th September, 2006.

The programme for this event includes the 5th C&I Standards Forum which will include updates on the revision of AACR2 [working title: Resource Description and Access (RDA)] - including a planned demonstration of the prototype online version - and on changes to MARC 21.

Other topics covered in the programme are: the effect of rules changes on rare books cataloguing; image, shape and multimedia resource discovery; image retrieval; user generated metadata for images databases; the role of cataloguing and classification in the LIS curriculum; SUNCAT: the national union catalogue of serials in the UK; terminology mapping ; automatic indexing and classification of texts; the Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary (IPSV); plus the CIG AGM.

The after dinner speaker at the conference dinner is Gudrun Warren, Librarian of Norwich Cathedral, while the programme also includes a quiz night and visits to one or more sites of professional and historic interest are provisionally planned for the afternoon of the 15th Sept.

Further information on the full programme can be found at:

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/CIG-2006/

Bookings can be made online, or by submitting a printed booking form. To request a printed booking form, please contact events@ukoln.ac.uk
Andrew Coburn
Acquisitions & Cataloguing Manager
Essex CC Libraries
tel. 01245 244957
01245 284981 ext 255
minicom 01245 244966
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