Jafari Baghiabadi, Somayeh, Ramezanzadeh, Mahdiyeh, Amini, Yeganeh and Noruzi, Alireza Information Organization in Children's and Primary Schools Libraries. Librarianship and Information Organization Studies, 2022, vol. 33, n. 3, pp. 3-24. [Journal article (Paginated)]
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Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the extent that information organization in several children's and primary school libraries merits the quality characteristics suggested by the library professional community schools in Tehran. Methods: A systematic literature review based on the PRISMA framework and focus group interviews were carried out to explore what criteria and standards are suggested for information organization in children’s libraries. Data analysis at this stage was done through thematic analysis. Based on the findings, a checklist was designed to find out to what extent such considerations were actually observed by librarians in investigated libraries. The data gathered by a checklist were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings: Characteristics identified included themes and components affecting the information organization process in three sections: descriptive cataloging, analytical cataloging, and classification. In the descriptive cataloging section, in connection with the main category of standard cataloging, cataloging according to the standards and cataloging rules, and in the category of notes, inserting abstracts and table of contents and including the age group or level of education. In the analytical cataloging section, the focus was on the function and mission of the information organization; with regard to the user, the focus was on the needs, interests, and expressive characteristics of users in different age groups and educational levels; in the category of information sources, identifying topics and resource-based activities through communication with experts, sites, groups, and organizations related to children's literature, such as groups to promote reading and attention to the table of contents and images; and in the category of methods and tools for assigning topics and standards and as specific and practical keywords as possible (via Persian Subject Headings, Subject Headings for Children, thesaurus, and social labeling), creating an ontology and establishing semantic relationships between subjects, assigning more than three topics and keywords to each resource, inserting the format of the work, were suggested as a subdivision into topics as much as possible and the creation of an appropriate reference system for the uniformity of topics and keywords. With regard to classification, Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), and with regard to supplementary methods, the separation of resources based on thematic classification and the separation of resources according to an age group or educational level was suggested. The second part of the research showed that more than half of the school libraries had used ISO through the National Library bibliography database. In the notes section, most librarians listed the appropriate age group for the book. The topics in the analytical cataloging section are devoted to items such as age group, book images, and format, CIP topics, and rarely keywords are allocated through indexing and content analysis of the book. Librarians have paid less attention to other influential components such as school functions and duties, students' interests, and so on. In the category of classification, libraries have mostly used DDC and general topics along with other symbols and methods. Conclusion: Insufficient attention has been paid to storing, representing, and retrieving children's information resources based on the themes and components of the identified characteristics.
| Item type: | Journal article (Paginated) |
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| Keywords: | Information organization, Child cataloguing, School library, Children library, Information resources, Children, Adolescents |
| Subjects: | I. Information treatment for information services > IA. Cataloging, bibliographic control. I. Information treatment for information services > ID. Knowledge representation. |
| Depositing user: | Dr. Alireza Noruzi |
| Date deposited: | 31 Dec 2022 12:52 |
| Last modified: | 31 Dec 2022 13:17 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/43861 |
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