Newbie cataloguer goes to the Metadata and Discovery Group Conference 2023

What happens next will shock you.

Abstract

Last September I was very grateful to receive a sponsored place at CILIP’s Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) Conference 2023, taking place in my hometown Birmingham. I knew that the experience would be extremely informative – especially for someone who had only been cataloguing about a year and a half – but I didn’t anticipate that I would also leave the conference feeling as inspired and welcomed to the profession as I did. The breadth and depth of topics discussed proved how diverse and rich a field metadata and discovery is. I learnt far too much to cover everything here, but what I will try to convey is how the conference helped give me a sense of the trajectory of cataloguing – both where we’ve come from and where we’re heading next.