Avaliação do uso de linguagem documentária em catálogos coletivos de bibliotecas universitárias: um estudo sociocognitivo com protocolo verbal

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Boccato, Vera Regina Casari [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Linguagem documentária; Bibliotecas universitárias; Protocolo verbal; Organização e representação do conhecimento; Metodologia qualitativa sociocognitiva; Tecnologias de representação e recuperação da informação; Indexing Language; Evaluation; Qualitative-socio-cognitive methodology; Organization and Knowledge Representation; Public catalogs of online access; Representation and information retrieval technologies; University libraries; Verbal Protocol
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103373

The indexing language plays a fundamental role in the indexing and information retrieval. When the indexing language does not correspond to the necessities of representation of the contents of the documents, carried out by the indexers and the requests of bibliographical searches through the users’ subject, it affects the performance of those processes, compromising the accomplishment of searches and services. The proposal is to carry through an evaluation study of the alphabetic indexing language use of the online collective catalogs, with a main focus on the technologies of representation and information retrieval, in the perspective of the university libraries and in the socio-cognitive context of indexers and users. With the general objective of to contribute for the adequate use of the alphabetical indexing languages in the indexing and information retrieval processes of specialized scientific areas in collective catalogs of the university libraries and thus, to collaborate with the process of continuous changes in the librarians’ practice and, consequently, of its using community, the research had as specific objectives: arguing the role of the alphabetical indexing languages in the conception of the collective catalogs through the perspective of the online catalogs; presenting and arguing about the indexing languages evaluation studies through the quantitave, qualitative and qualitative-cognitive approaches as evaluation methods, which are supported by the theoretical and methodological fundamentals of the Organization and Knowledge Representation area, coping with the contemporary paradigms of the Information Science area ; and investigating the application of the socio-cognitive approach by Verbal Protocol for an evaluation study of the alphabetical indexing language use of the collective catalogs in specialized scientific areas in the perspective of the university libraries... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)