Teaching and learning how to organize information effectively is a complex process both for educators and students. Cataloguing, which is defined as the process of organizing information by making bibliographic records, is the established procedure for achieving the goal mentioned. Learning the process of cataloguing can be difficult for students because they must become familiar with a large amount of new and complex contents. Apart from that, the skill of exceptional cataloguing is being acquired over the years of working in the field. Since according to our syllabi, the sufficient knowledge and skills should be successfully transferred to students through courses that teach information organization and cataloguing, educators have been trying for years to find the best ways to make the process of transferring it to students as successful as possible. The present paper addresses the purpose and the manner of teaching and learning the information organization as well as the importance and place that future information science professionals have in the contemporary online environment. The paper presents the implementation of the practical classes and the teaching of the process of cataloguing through the courses Organizacija informacija (Organisation of Information) and Teorija i praksa organizacije informacija (Theory and Practice Organisation of Information) at the Department of Information Sciences of the University of Osijek. In agreement with the Institute of Information Sciences IZUM from Maribor, our Department was given access to work in their COBISS library system in the academic year 2019/2020. The system was later used as the only system for the purpose of conducting practical online teaching at the University of Osijek during the COVID-19 pandemic. An additional aim of the paper was therefore to present the results of a survey conducted among undergraduate and graduate students on the experiences and attitudes based on working with COBISS, as well as their opinion on the virtual practical courses on descriptive cataloguing.
The paper discusses challenges in the development of UNIMARC as an encoding standard for metadata content that conforms to the stipulations of ISBD for Manifestation, an implementation of the IFLA Library Reference Model. UNIMARC already encodes metadata controlled by ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Description, the precursor of ISBD for Manifestation.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1945, the Decree on Mandatory Delivery of Printed Matters in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Decree on the National Library of Federal Bosnia and Herzegovina were passed, which laid the legal foundations for creating a Bibliography of Bosniaca. Later in B&H, following the foundation of the B&H Library Association in 1955, the first B&H librarianship journal, the Bulletin of the B&H Library Association and the National Library of the People's Republic of B&H was launched, where the journal was first renamed to Librarianship: Journal of the B&H Library Association and then to Librarianship: Yearbook of the B&H Library Association.
The article presents in detail the data on the annual increment of bibliographic records in 2022 at annual and monthly levels. The analysis includes 171,503 bibliographic records created by 546 cataloguers. In the last quarter of the year, 27.5% of bibliographic records were created.
Authority control is an important part of cataloguing. The Slovene CONOR.SI authority file including authority records for individual and corporate authors, enables among others identification of authors. The purpose of the research was to find out cataloguers’ opinions on its usefulness, its advantages and disadvantages, and how creating authority records for corporate authors was practised. The survey was conducted as an online questionnaire and interview, 73 cataloguers from academic libraries participated. The results showed that the majority of surveyed cataloguers were satisfied with CONOR.SI.
The education system should provide an inclusive learning environment where every individual is important and entitled to equal opportunities. This paper presents the activities and functionalities of the Moodle virtual learning environment based on the case study of the e-classroom where the potential for providing an inclusive learning environment based on the idea of personalised learning was analysed.
The Fifth Information Age is characterised by the ubiquitous recording of social transactions in an explosion of persistent cultural memory. A person who contributes to social media is an agent who creates digital cultural artefacts. The internet of things, of personal devices for the capture, creation, transmission, and output of information means everyone is potentially an author, a publisher, a distributor, with a profound impact on traditional methods of authority control. The focus of authority control is shifting from the provision of a unique label for an individual person or group to the description of an individual as an instance of a class, as an entity.
The purpose of this paper is to offer additional help to cataloguers for more uniform and higher quality cataloguing of textual component parts, and at the same time to gather information about where cataloguers can get informed about novelties and changes in the cataloguing of textual component parts.
The paper describes and emphasizes the importance of authority control for personal names in the development of library catalogues. The introductory part of the paper presents a historical overview of the development of authority control in world librarianship, the most important library conferences that dealt with this topic, as well as the way authority control functions in the world and in library-information systems operating on the COBISS platform.
By introducing the IFLA Library Reference Model, the significance of authority control is constantly increasing as authority data will play a key role in the linked data network. Consequently, the preparation of authority data will help when implementing IFLA LRM and will prove useful during the transition to RDA (Resource Description and Access). The overview of authority data situation in the COBISS.net system with the focus on the Slovenian COBISS.SI system is presented.
The article presents in detail the data on the annual increment of bibliographic records in 2021 at annual and monthly levels. The analysis includes 177,705 bibliographic records created by 543 cataloguers. In the last quarter of the year, 28 % of bibliographic records were created. Most records, i.e. 1,015 records, were created on Tuesday, 9 February 2021, Tuesdays are also the most productive days in the year.
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