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1. Erratic Patterns : Unravelling the Cultural Transfers of Library Classifiers
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABMSammanfattning : This thesis investigates the oft-overlooked influence of the classifier's input during the assignment of library classifications and draws upon cultural transfer theory to shed light on the underlying principles that guide the process. Classifiers' personal knowledge, experience, and beliefs, have a critical role in determining the 'aboutness' of a work and its subsequent classification. LÄS MER
2. Vem är en auktoritet? : Hur katalogisatörer inom LIBRIS-samarbetet söker, värderar och använder information
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för ABM, digitala kulturer samt förlags- och bokmarknadskunskapSammanfattning : This master’s thesis is about cataloguing and information practices. In Sweden, most cataloguing is done in LIBRIS, a national database containing the collections of most public and academic libraries in the country. The people who catalogue books and other types of media in this database work at libraries that span the entire nation. LÄS MER
3. Domänspecifik kompetens : Vad författargivna nyckelord bidrar med i ämnesindexering av resurser i litteraturvetenskap
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABMSammanfattning : The purpose of this Master’s thesis is to contribute to knowledge of what author-assigned keywords add to the indexing of Swedish dissertations in literature. This study had two research questions: 1) What types of keywords do the authors choose? 2) How do the author-assigned keywords compare to the cataloger-assigned subject headings from the controlled vocabulary Svenska Ämnesord (SAO) regarding types of terms, exhaustivity and specificity? Theoretical perspectives for this study come from Domain analysis which is a core paradigm within the research area Knowledge Organization (see e. LÄS MER
4. Catalogue across languages? : The opportunities and challenges of the multilingual Online Public Access Catalogue as an interface between librarians and end-users
Master-uppsats, Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och ITSammanfattning : There exist two assumptions that may well be connected. The first is that in an increasingly global and technological world, language barriers have fallen. Online machine translation services are monetarily free for everyone to use. LÄS MER
5. Examining the limitations of classification and indexing from a librarian perspective, with a particular view onto library representations of marginalised communities
Master-uppsats, Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och ITSammanfattning : This thesis investigates the inconsistencies in classification and indexing present in the University of the Arts Library catalogue, and examines how these relate to the perspectives of qualified librarians through the use of qualitative interviews. We surmise that effective representation of items relating to marginalised communities, within the language of classification and indexing, has a great impact on the findability of these items. LÄS MER