June 2009 Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter

The June 2009 issue of the Classification and Indexing Section Newsletter is now available at
http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/newsletter-1.

The contents include:

A Few Words from the Chair
Greetings from the Information Coordinator
Section Activities, WLIC Milan 2009
Progress on FRSAR

Reports
Dewey Decimal Classification News
Dewey - Let's Do It!
European Dewey Users' Group (EDUG)
LCSH-ES Update
Open Shelves Classification Project
UDC News

News from: Czechia, Estonia, France, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Other News:
ISKO conference: Rome 2010
Mapping Library Classification Systems
UDC Discussion List en español
International UDC Seminar 2009

UDC Update Session at IFLA 2009

UDC Update Session at World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly "Libraries create futures: Building on cultural heritage", 23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy - will take place on Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 12:00-13.00 in Room Turquoise 2.

Colleagues attending IFLA in Milan are welcome to attend.

Registration open

CLASSIFICATION AT A CROSSROADS
Multiple Directions to Usability
International UDC Seminar 2009
29-30 October 2009, The Hague

VENUE: Koninklijke Bibliotheek.
URL: http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm
FEE: €110 (student discount: €90)

The conference programme includes a selection of over twenty papers representing classification research in 14 countries. Speakers will address the potential of classification, in supporting information organization, management and resource discovery in the networked environment and will explore solutions for better subject access control and vocabulary sharing services.

Two eminent keynote speakers will address the conference: Prof. Dagobert Soergel, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland (USA) and Dan Brickley, an advocate and developer of W3C Semantic Web technologies (UK).

The conference is the second in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the UDC Consortium and hosted by The National Library of The Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek). The UDCC is a self-funded, non-commercial organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and supports its use and development.

To take advantage of the early bird discount, you can register and pay online at the conference website.