CILIP Scotland endorses the Cataloguing Code of Ethics
The CILIP Scotland Board has endorsed the Cataloguing Code of Ethics at their April 2025 meeting.
This is the product of a joint initiative spearheaded by the cataloguing and metadata special interest groups of the American Library Association CaMMS (now CORE), the Canadian Federation of Library Associations and CILIP CIG (now MDG).
Authored by the Cataloguing Ethics Steering Committee, it is informed by the experience of over 70 volunteers from the international cataloguing community who produced reports on six key areas for the Cataloguing Ethics Steering Committee. Areas examined are authority work, classification, subject headings and controlled vocabularies, access scope and infrastructure, staffing/working conditions and resource discovery and access.
The Code includes 10 statements of ethical principles intended to aid the examination and formation of cataloguing policy and practice to ensure that resources can be found and accessed by everyone.
The ALA endorsed the Code in November 2021 and CILIP endorsed it in 2022.
Further information regarding the Code, CESC, the working groups and the open call for short case studies, describing ethical issues encountered and how these were resolved, can be accessed via the Cataloguing Ethics Steering Committee website here.