摘要：“If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward”-Martin Luther King Jr.In January 2019 I became Chair of the Cataloguing & Indexing Groupbut in December I will be stepping down as Chair of the Metadata & Discovery Group.So that is the first change that I need to talk about –a new name and a new remit which we hope will keep the Group moving forward and in doing so advance the cause of our membership and the wider community of practice. I wrote an article about our name change for a previous issue of C&I What’s in a name? From CIG to MDG to CPD(No. 198, March 2020)but I’d like to pick out some threads to repeat here.The 2018 Membership survey had revealed certain trends which anecdotally we were aware of or had personal experience of i.e. Metadata loomed large in our job titles; that our work was identified as an essential component for resource discovery; that cataloguers and metadata managers work in libraries but also museums, archives, galleries, for myriad organisations including publishers and also the companies that sell us resources, systems and bibliographic records and metadata.
