Dear LIS-linkers,
Can I remind you of the Bliss AGM and Annual Lecture, which will be
taking place on Friday.
BLISS CLASSIFICATION ASSOCIATION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING & ANNUAL LECTURE
24 OCTOBER 2008 at 2.15 p.m.
University of London Library, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
in the Palaeography Seminar Room
'Back to basics: BC2 then, now, and in the future'
The original Bibliographic Classification of H. E. Bliss was widely
acclaimed as the finest of the general classification schemes of the
early twentieth century. Its second edition has also been regarded
as the model of a modern subject indexing and retrieval tool,
embracing as it does the developed classification theory of the next
generation. This event takes a comprehensive look at the
fundamentals of BC2, the only fully faceted system of classification
in the western world. The speakers will cover principles of BC2, how
and why it was conceived, its use as a pattern for faceted
vocabularies, its influence on other retrieval tools, and plans for
the further development of BC2 as a thesaurus and in a web-enabled format.
Speakers include Jack Mills, Vanda Broughton, Jean Aitchison, and Leonard Will
The BCA Annual Lecture will take place at 3.15 p.m., immediately
after the 2008 AGM of the Bliss Classification Association. The
Lecture is open to anyone interested in matters relating to
classification, indexing, and the problems of subject access and
retrieval generally, and you are warmly invited to attend.
Entry is free, but if you would like to come, please email Vanda
Broughton at <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]
Vanda Broughton
Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for MA Library & Information Studies
School of Library Archive & Information Studies
University College London
Gower Street
LONDON
WC1E 6BT
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