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CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals submission date: 250 words by Friday 27 October 2006
The editors are accepting proposals for the Winter issue of Catalogue &
Index, which will be themed ‘CIG Today’ and will aim to show the diversity
of cataloguing, indexing, metadata and related roles available.
We are looking for:
short vignettes (300-600 words)
case studies of specific projects / roles (600-900 words)
discursive essays on aspects of practice / experience (upwards of 900
words)
Suggested topics could include, but are not limited to:
a day in the life of a metadata editor / rare books cataloguer, etc.
the regrading of cataloguers in the academic sector
international standards vs local search requirements: the balancing
act
the art and science of taxonomy design
networking: influencing through indexing
what they didn’t teach me at library school
DDC, BLISS, LC: classification schemes I have known
why health librarians / law librarians, etc., need to bother with
cataloguing
integrated catalogues: the sweat behind the search results
Ideally, we would like to represent all the major sectors of the LIS
community: academic, commercial, public, and special. We would also be
happy to hear from students, lecturers and paraprofessionals.
This issue will be used as a promotional tool at future events, so if
accepted, your work will reach not only the existing readership of C& I,
but a wide range of others interested in cataloguing, indexing and
metadata.
In the first instance, please send your name, contact details and
proposal (no more than 250 words) to [log in to unmask] by
Friday 27 October. If accepted, the final submission date for articles
will be Thursday 30 November 2006.
Anne Welsh, Editor
