We are a @cilip.bsky.social Special Interest Group - but you don't have to be a CILIP Member to engage with us!
We care about #metadata #cataloguing #cataloging #discoverability #scholcomms #research #knowedge #infrastructure & making #connections between #collections.
Give us a follow! 🦋🩵

Just been looking at stats for Likes/Reposts on the @cilipmdg.bsky.social account, particularly those related to the recent #MetaFutures Conference (11-13 March); the account only has 352 followers; I'm wondering where the #metadata #discovery #cataloguing #cataloging #librarians are hiding? 📚🐈

Transforming Arabic Bibliographic Records: Implementing ChatGPT in MARC 21 Record Creation This study evaluates ChatGPT’s potential to generate accurate, efficient, and standards-compliant MARC 21 records for Arabic materials. It aims to streamline Arabic bibliographic cataloging workflo...

Can ChatGPT generate MARC 21 records for Arabic resources?

doi.org/10.1080/0163...

Why read? It presents prompt development & evaluates AI output for Arabic resources.
What’s next? Larger-scale research & improvements in evaluation strategy are needed

#ShortReview #AI #ChatGPT #Cataloging #Arabic

I've been bussy creating my own app The RetroVault! It enables you to catalog your retro collection and also view it on the go! #opensource #cataloging #retrostuff

youtu.be/cnSnaxK7d1o

Next week is the MDG Conference and RDA Day! #MetaFutures
Booking closes today! tinyurl.com/53rfxscr
We are really looking forward to seeing our speakers, sponsors, and delegates in Bristol from Wed 11th - Fri 13th March.
See you there! #metadata #discovery #cataloguing #cataloging

a cartoon cat with a pink bow is looking out of a window and says `` oh '' . Alt: a cartoon cat with a pink bow is looking out of a window and says `` oh '' .

I need to complain about cataloger-y things like excessive access points PLUS poor choice because authority control and *I’m not near any other catalogers right now!*
#libraries #metadata #cataloging

Photo showing a variety of books on display against a historic library backdrop that is in a board that says “Glasgow’s women’s library hello everyone welcome” The text overlaying the image says “ did you know? Glasgow women’s library uses its own feminist classification system.”

Photo showing a small selection of colourful books spines on a shelf. The text overlaying the image says “for decades topics like LGBTQIA+ lives were filed under abnormal psychology, social problems perversion and arrangement that that’s not something GWL was willing to accept”

Photographs showing wooden shelving holding the collection of books the area is carpeted in a light blue patterned carpet. The text overlaying the image says” the system began taking shape in 2005 when GWL’s first librarian Wendy Kirk started developing a way to organise a growing collection of over 20,000 donated books”

A photograph of three bookshelves that are pretty full. On the spines library labels can be seen. The overlaying the image says “ instead of complex codes GWL uses letters for main subjects numbers for sub categories for example H7 .1 is history 20th century and suffragettes. Simple. Intuitive. Welcoming.”

Shared by @womenslibrary.bsky.social in time for #IDWGS2026

A cataloguing system for a women’s library 📚 ♀️💕
#womenInSTEM
#METADATA
#data #LibraryScience
#cataloging
#knowledge #information
#library

Library and Banned Books News 10-10-25 And a goodbye to the fabulous cats at Baker & Taylor

@victoriawaddle.bsky.social added, in another posting, that the demise of B&T is causing #librarians to scramble as they attempt to gather basic information for #cataloging, information vital for those institutions with small staffs. victoriawaddle.substack.com/p/library-an... (111/?)

AUTOCAT, 36 years ago. It’s an email listserv for library catalogers and *it still exisis*
#libraries #cataloging

Old Wine in Half-Filled Bags: AI Has A Problem Librarians Already Solved | Stuart Michael Edelenbos Modern AI is training on its own output. Each generation gets worse. Researchers call it model collapse. Oxford, Stanford, and Rice studies all point the same direction: without verified data, models...

I wrote a piece on one of AI’s biggest challenges (model collapse) and how the solution to that is just another Wednesday for librarians.

#libraries #librarytech #AI #cataloging

www.linkedin.com/posts/stuart...

Company News: OCLC Introduces New #AI Tools to Make #Cataloging Faster and Smarter www.oclc.org/en/news/rele... #metadata #libraries #DDC #LCC #LCSH

Critcatenate: #critcat in November 2025 – Cataloging Lab

New issue of Critcatenate now available, featuring news about critical #cataloging. cataloginglab.org/2025/11/30/c... #critcat

Metadata & cataloging librarians, please consider taking the surveys shared to help your colleagues! 📚

#BookHistory #BookSky #History #Manuscripts #Ethiopic #Textiles #Libraries #Reading #Digitization #Cataloging #OpenAccess

Conference Presentation (Slides): #Metadata for the Margins: Cyberpunk #Cataloging with #OpenAI (via @ifla.org) repository.ifla.org/items/855d62... #AI

Pissed-off giant fish monster surfacing in the ocean, staring at the viewer with one wide eye (no 4th wall here!) This monster has tusks as long as their head, plus a goatee (?) and a mustache-thing that kind of looks like a clump of crab grass.

Giant flying turtle!

This supremely bored-looking fish monster is swimming along, minding their sea monster business.

Hey hey! Been a while since I had a map with some sea monsters on it but here we are. This is a replica of “Caerte van Oostlant” (Arnold Nicolai, 1560). #mapmonsters #cataloging

Radical Cataloging This collection of critical and scholarly essays addresses the state of cataloging in the world of librarianship. The contributors, including Sanford Berman, Thomas Mann, and numerous front-line libra...

📄Chaper 'The Hidden History of Queer Subject Access' from 📗'Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front'
edited by K.R. Roberto
#Cataloguing
#Cataloging
#Metadata
#CritLib
#LGBTQ

tinyurl.com/mr3tarfd

Backlogs and Beyond: #AI in Primary #Cataloging Workflows (via @oclc.org/Research Library Partnership) hangingtogether.org/backlogs-and... #libraries #librarians

The Archaeology Catalogs Part II: A Great Deal of Careful Work - Ohio History Connection For Ohio Archaeology Month, explore the history of the archaeology catalogs that organize information about world-renowned collections.

The Archaeology Catalogs Part II: A Great Deal of Careful Work - Sara Polk

Enhancing Inclusive Bibliographic Data: A Study of Disability Terminology in the Subject Headings of the National Library of Indonesia This study aims to examine the use and structure of disability-related subject headings in the National Library of Indonesia's controlled vocabulary system (Juliana) in relation to principles of inclu...

'Enhancing Inclusive Bibliographic Data: A Study of Disability Terminology in the Subject Headings of the National Library of Indonesia' 🔽

repository.ifla.org/items/3cba20...

#Library
#Disability
#Cataloging
#Cataloguing
#CripLib

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#Cataloging #ELTA #Data

The nerdiest "stick it to the man" library thing I can think of:
I'm going to teach a co-worker about MARC and have them help me with a re-class project. What our director doesn't know can't hurt them.

#cataloging #nerd #librarylife 📚

The latest issue of Catalogue & Index is out. Some really great articles by colleagues - journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...

🙏 C&I editors Karen Pierce and Fran Frenzel for including my checklist for non-Marc cataloguing - journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...

#cataloguing #cataloging #metadata

Practical Cataloguing Webinar 1: Introduction to MARC21 Cataloguing is this Wednesday 24th Sept 13:00-14:00 (GMT+1).
Free to all. Registration required: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#cataloguing #cataloging #metadata #training #event #webinar #libraries

a little girl in a blue shirt is standing in front of a shelf in a pink room . Alt: A little girl makes a face while shrugging, expressing the idea that she knows she has done something of which you will disapprove

I undead people every time I put a hyphen in a date in a NAR <evil laugh>
#libraries
#cataloging

Materials with only brief bib records are now called "problem children." This afternoon, it took me 2.5 hours to square one problem child away. Cataloging in a new system is a lesson in patience - nevermind that I had to create a call number and assign subject headings.
#cataloger #Cataloging #books

1 week to go!
Don't forget to register for our Cataloguing Ethics Panel Discussion and AGM.
Join us in-person at the University of Manchester or online via Teams.
#cataloguing #cataloging #metadata #ethics #inclusion #critcat #EDI #DEI #libraries #archives #galleries #museums #repositories

https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1958692

Join us on Wednesday 3rd September from 2pm (BST) for our AGM Event with a Cataloguing Ethics Panel Discussion.
Hybrid event: in-person at the University of Manchester, or online via Teams.
Full details at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata #cataloguing #cataloging #ethics #critcat #event

Enhancing Cataloging with Generative AI: Converting Wade-Giles to Pinyin Generative AI tools are transforming library cataloging by improving efficiency and expanding access to multilingual resources. This study examines the application of AI in automating the translite...

Can generative AI help convert Wade–Giles to Pinyin?
Study evaluates the performance of 3 different tools.
doi.org/10.1080/0163...

Why read? Practical scenario & insights into how 3 tools work.
What’s next? More practical studies are needed.

#ShortReview #KO #AI #Cataloging #Mandarin #Library

It's not a label issue.
It's a streaming platform issue - their metadata management is complete garbage.
#disambiguation #metadata #cataloging
bsky.app/profile/neko...