Classification & Indexing Section Newsletter June 2013

The Classification & Indexing Newsletter June 2014 is now available from the C&I website.  Contents include information about WLIC 2014 in Lyon, the FRBR review group, the IFLA Namespaces Technical Group, news and updates from UDC, DDC and from libraries around the world  

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New working group on genre/form

The Classification & Indexing Section has formed a new working group: IFLA Genre/Form Working Group. Genre/Form has to do with what something “is”, rather than what it is “about“. Genre/form terms can assist the user by providing access points for the forms and genres of expressions and have proved to be useful in library catalogues […]

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Call for papers Open Session Lyon 2014

World Library and Information Congress: 80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly “Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge” Lyon, France, 16-22 August 2014 Open Session for the Classification & Indexing, Cataloguing, and Bibliography Sections and the UNIMARC Core Activity Call for Papers “Universal Bibliographic Control in the Digital Age: Golden Opportunity or Paradise Lost?” Three sections […]

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UDC conference presentations available

PDF versions of the slides and MP3 versions of the presentations slides and talks from the International UDC Seminar 2013 – “Classification and Visualization”are now available. The posters from the conference are also freely available online The conference proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag as Classification and visualization: interfaces to knowledge. The conference took place […]

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IFLA 2014 Satellite on linked data in libraries

A call for contributions to an IFLA 2014 Satellite meeting on linked data in libraries has been issued. The meeting will take place at Site François-Mitterrand, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, on August 14, 2014 between 9am and 5pm. The call is for full papers or short presentations, with a submission deadline of March 8, […]

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