v Cataloguing

Despite all the promises, the paperless office never happened. Every organisation acquires a mountain of paper; everything from the designer’s latest brilliant idea scrawled on a bar napkin to a complete set of Encyclopaedia Britannica. It all needs to be stored somewhere, and it all needs to be catalogued so that it can be easily retrieved. Cataloguing assigns a unique number to each item which can be used for document control (more of that later) and gives a document a subject number which groups it with other documents about the subject. Cataloguing is your filing system’s big brother. Cataloguing turns your central filing system into an in-house version of a High Street lending library.

Our cataloguing is carried out professionally to Library of Congress/British Library standards using suitably expanded Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) numbers, an internationally-recognised system providing world-wide consistency of subject control. UDC is fully machine-compatible.

We can catalogue your existing archive, train your staff and hand the system over to you; or we can be retained to catalogue all documents as they come in.

Cataloguing and document control are closely-related disciplines, and you may wish to consider them as a single package.