Newsletter of the Section on Bibliography

July 1997

Copenhagen will also mark the inception of a new standing committee and elections of new officers. The new committee is listed below; amongst other things, the committee will be confirming the Medium Term Programme for 1998-2001, a draft of which is also given here.

Conference programme

Friday 29 August

12:30 - 16:35

Division of Bibliographic Control

Co-ordinating Board

Saturday 30 August

09:00 - 11:50

Section on Bibliography

Standing Committee

Sunday 31 August

09:00 - 10:30

IFLA Orientation for Newcomers

10:45 - 11:45

Unesco Open Forum

Monday 1 September

09:00 - 10:50

Division of Bibliographic Control

Open Forum

this year's Open Forum will include presentat:ions on the following topics:

• the new ISBD for Electronic Resources, UNIMARC, developments in the ISBN and ISSN, classification systems (DDC, UDC, LCC), the recent survey of national bibliographic agencies and the book trade

11:00 - 12:30

Open Forum of Core Programmes

Tuesday 2 September

09:00 - 11:25

Section on Classification and Indexing

papers are as follows:

• L'application de la Classification Dewey à la Bibliothèque nationale de France (Suzanne Jouguelet:);
• Picture and text classification based on discourse analysis (Annelise Mark Pejtersen);
• Classification and indexing in view-based searching (Steven A Pollitt)

12:30 - 15:00

Section on Cataloguing

papers are as follows:

• DanBib, a user-friendly union catalogue with fuzzy logic applied for flexible querying Troels Andreassen and Tommy Schomacker);
• Report on the IFLA study on the functional requirements for bibliographic records (Olivia Madison);
• The future of cataloguing and cataloguers (Michael Gorman)

Wednesday 3 September

12:30 - 15:00

Section on Bibliography

papers are as follows:

• Public/private sector relationships in the production of national bibliographies (Kirsten Waneck);
• Application of IT to the bibliography of early printed books (Henry Shyder);
• and two reports on current projects (Barbara Bell and Robert Holley)

Thursday 4 September

09:00 - 13:00

Future of communication formats

• workshop: register in advance with Ingrid Parent (ingrid.parent:@nlc-bnc.ca)

09:00 - 13:00

EDI and beyond: electronic commerce and libraries

• workshop: register in advance with Ross Bourne (ross.bourne@bl.uk)

13:00 - 17:00

Authority control: developments and prospects

• workshop: register in advance with Marie-France Plassard (iflaubcim@dbf.ddb.de)

Friday 5 September

10:30 - 11:20

Section on Bibliography Standing Committee *

11:30 - 13:20

Division of Bibliographic Control

Co-ordinating Board *

* Observers are welcome at these meetings.

The Medium Term Programme for 1998-2001

"The Section on Bibliography is primarily concerned with the content, arrangement, production, dissemination and preservation of bibliographic information, especially (but not exclusively) where these pertain to national bibliographic services. It is also concerned with the promotion of the importance of the discipline of bibliography to library professionals in all types of library (not just national libraries), to publishers, distributors and retailers and also to end users. While taking full account of technological possibilities, the Section is aware that such developments are not yet available in some areas of the world, and it will ensure that its solutions are not necessarily dependent on particular technologies. The Section is closely associated, where appropriate, not only with the other sections within the Division of Bibliographic Control and with the UBCIM Programme, but also with the Sections on Information Technology and of National Libraries."

Goals proposed for the new MTP are as follows:

1. To promote the production and publishing of bibliographic information for all kinds of documents, including those published by electronic means, both hand-held and online.

2. To monitor and promote good practice in the preparation of bibliographic information through the use of international standards and guidelines and to take appropriate action when those standards need amplification or modification.

3. To promote co-operation with the book trade in the preparation of bibliographic information.

4. To monitor and promote publication of bibliographies in electronic form, e.g. on the Internet.

5. To monitor and take action as necessary on new search methods and user interfaces.

6. To monitor and promote the inclusion of Internet resources in bibliographies.

7. To promote the importance of bibliography at library and information schools.

1997/99 Standing Committee

The Standing Committee for the next two year period will comprise the following members:

Special adviser:

Observers:

Enquiries about this newsletter should be addressed to the Chairman at the British Library, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, UK

(tel.: + 44 1937 546591; fax: + 44 1937 546586; e-mail: ross.bourne@bl.uk)

Web information about the Section appears at http://www.ifla.org/VII/s12/sb.htm

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