LIASA IGBIS, your Interest Group for Bibliographic Standards, is excited to host and present to the LIASA and LIS community the South African Cataloguing Code of Ethics Task Team (CETT), who will be updating us on the progress they have made this year. Members of the CETT’s leadership will share their approach to understanding and interpreting the Cataloguing Code of Ethics in a South African context, and the strategy they are adopting to ensure the Code reflects the needs and interests of South Africa’s metadata practitioners and library users.

We are delighted to introduce to the South African LIS community, Jane Daniels and colleagues, who lead the Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee (CESC). Headed by representatives from the United States of America, Canada, and the United Kingdom, and receiving input from working groups comprising metadata practitioners from countries around the world, the CESC developed the Cataloguing Code of Ethics (which can be viewed on the CESC home page here). This amazing work is inspiring conversations globally, and with the efforts of the CETT, South African cataloguers will be able to contribute to this discourse.

During the afternoon’s event, attendees will meet and hear from South African CETT members about their work and learn from the CESC leadership about the background and development of the original Cataloguing Code of Ethics. The IGBIS committee feels this is a very important dialogue not only for cataloguers and metadata practitioners, but everyone in the LIS community who interacts with metadata in their daily work.

Date: Tuesday 25 April 2023

Time: 15:00-16:30 SAST

Platform : Zoom

Members of the South African Cataloguing Ethics Task Team (CETT):

Judith Ngcobo, Cataloguing and metadata librarian, University of Fort Hare: Task team co-ordinator.

Tienie de Klerk, Academic information services manager at Mukhanyo Theological College Library: Deputy task team co-ordinator.

Karin Oxley, Principal librarian at South African Weather Services (SAWS): Task team secretary.

Members of the Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee (CESC):

Beth Shoemaker, Head, Bibliographic Services, Victoria University - E. J. Pratt Library in the University of Toronto, Canada (co-chair) (ALA CORE representative) Staffing/Work Conditions Working Group Liaison

Karen Snow, PhD Program Director, School of Information Studies, Dominican University, Illinois, USA (co-chair) (ALA CORE representative) Classification Working Group Liaison

May Chan, Head, Metadata Services, John P. Robarts Library in the University of Toronto, Canada (CFLA-FCAB CMSC representative) Access Scope & Infrastructure Working Group Liaison

Jane Daniels, Retired, formally Bibliographic Librarian, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK (CILIP MDG representative) Authority Work Working Group Liaison

Sarah Furger, Cataloging Librarian, Joliet Public Library, Illinois, USA Subject Headings Working Group Liaison

Diane Rasmussen Pennington, Director of the Centre for Social Informatics, School of Computing, Engineering, and the Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland (CILIP MDG representative) Resource Discovery & Accessibility Working Group Liaison