Classification and Indexing Section
Strategic Plan
2006-2007
Revised per agreements made Oslo, Norway, 19 August 2005 and
Seoul, Korea, 25 August, 2006
Mission
The Classification and Indexing Section exists:
- To focus on methods of providing subject access in catalogues, bibliographies and indexes to resources of all kinds
- To serve as a forum for producers of subject access tools
- To work to facilitate international exchange of information about methods of providing subject access
- To promote standardization, uniform application, and interoperability of subject access tools
- To encourage, comment on and give advice about research in the subject approach to information and to disseminate the results through open meetings and publications
Goals
Goal 1. To monitor and provide information about current issues and new developments in the provision of subject access to information resources and to disseminate results of relevant research.
Professional Pillar
(Professional priorities: (a) Supporting the role of libraries in society; (d) Providing unrestricted access to information; (f) Promoting resource sharing; (g) Preserving our intellectual heritage; (h) Developing library professionals; (i) Promoting standards, guidelines and best practices)
Actions
1.1 Sponsor a programme on the interoperability of subject access for multilingual and multi-script networked environment, particularly for Asia for the Seoul Conference. Done
1.2 Include papers in a programme for Durban on partners for subject access to bring libraries and users together.
1.3 Include in the Section's newsletter and on IFLANET and share at committee meetings information about current activities in the provision of subject access. Ongoing
1.4 Encourage participation and contributions representing perspectives from a wide range of countries and subject areas and make available information in as many languages as possible.
The Section Newsletter will include articles in multiple languages as available from members and others. Ongoing
Papers for Section's program will be translated into most IFLA languages. Ongoing
1.5 Plan a programme for the 2008 Québec conference.
Goal 2. To develop new and review existing standards and guidelines related to subject access
Professional Pillar
(Professional priorities: (i) Promoting standards, guidelines and best practices)
Actions
2.1 Publish Multilingual Thesauri Guidelines in 2006.
2.2 Develop Guidelines for Subject Access by National Bibliographic Agencies in collaboration with the Bibliography Section to examine best practices and draw up guidelines for minimal standards for subject access in national bibliographies by the time of the 2007 Durban conference.
2.3 Collaborate with the Cataloguing Section in the MulDiCat project. Underway
2.4 Take the lead for a Division-level FRBR Study Group on Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) and prepare a report of FRSAR for a worldwide review by 2007. Underway
Goal 3. To monitor, promote and disseminate results of research relating to subject access to information resources
Professional Pillar
(Professional priorities: (a) Supporting the role of libraries in society; (d) Providing unrestricted access to information; (f) Promoting resource sharing; (g) Preserving our intellectual heritage; (h) Developing library professionals; (i) Promoting standards, guidelines and best practices)
Actions
3.1 Report on trends in the provision of subject access to electronic resources through the Section Newsletter, IFLANET, the IFLA Journal, and ICBC (International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control).
Goal 4. To provide information about the work of the Section and Standing Committee
Professional Pillar; Member Pillar
(Professional priorities: (a) Supporting the role of libraries in society; (d) Providing unrestricted access to information; (f) Promoting resource sharing; (g) Preserving our intellectual heritage; (h) Developing library professionals; (i) Promoting standards, guidelines and best practices)
4.1 Prepare and distribute the Section Newsletter twice a year. Two issues in 2006
4.2 Report on Section activities during the Open Forum of the Division of Bibliographic Control. Done for Seoul through the Division handout
4.3 Provide information for publication in ICBC, in the IFLA Journal, on IFLANET and in other professional literature. Ongoing
4.4 Publish in a timely manner the Section's minutes, Strategic plan, reports, and other documents in electronic form accessible through IFLANET and, where appropriate, in printed form. Ongoing
4.5 Update the Section information in the Division brochure and assist with translation into other languages as a tool to communicate the Section's activities.
Goal 5. To promote membership of the Section and to seek broader geographic representation on the Standing Committee
Member Pillar
(Professional priorities: (a) Supporting the role of libraries in society; (d) Providing unrestricted access to information; (f) Promoting resource sharing; (g) Preserving our intellectual heritage; (h) Developing library professionals)
Actions
5.1 Target libraries that may be interested in joining the Section and contact Section members to seek their help in expanding membership.
5.2 Seek members and/or corresponding members from countries not currently represented on the Standing Committee, including appropriate committees in other library associations. Establish an ongoing Working Group for recruitment to accomplish this action. Working Group established at the Seoul meeting.
5.3 Send contacts to the three sections of Division 8: Africa, Asia and Oceania, and Latin American and the Caribbean.
5.4 Keep in contact with the retired committee members through the Newsletter. Past member, Marcia Zeng, gave paper in Seoul at the Section programme.
