CILIP MDG is excited to announce a webinar series Practical Cataloguing taking place in Autumn 2025, showcasing essential metadata & cataloguing skills.

The series brings together experts, practitioners, and enthusiasts to discuss and explore topics relevant to everyday cataloguing challenges. The webinars provide a platform for developing skills, knowledge sharing and professional development. The aim is that attendees should be able to log off from the session and try something new in their work.

The Society of Indexers warmly invites members of the Metadata and Discovery Group to its next Coffee Morning Zoom meeting on Thursday 20th November at 11am.

This time, we’ll be talking about the particular challenges of indexing feminist texts – books whose authors have applied feminist analysis or a related critical framework. I also want us to discuss whether there is such a thing as ‘feminist indexing’ and, if so, how it might be defined or recognised. Is it possible that a consciously feminist mode of thinking could affect our identification of passing mentions, how we phrase our entries and how we structure the index?

The Metadata and Discovery Group invites participants to a WorldCafe held at the Wellcome Collection. The WorldCafe will focus on the continuing discussion and debate around the use of LCSH as a viable controlled vocabulary for subject index in library catalogues. Colleagues are invited from across the sector and at any level who may be interested in forming a coalition of interested groups with a view to establish viable, scalable alternatives to current practice.