A New Scheme for Library Classification

Araghi, Gholamreza Fadaie

doi:10.1300/j104v38n02_07

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“…So, in scientific texts, if we try not to scatter keyword terms and bring them to some sort of standard level, it may work. In my article New Scheme for Library Classification, [27] I illustrated that if we harmonize the terms we use in our classification of knowledge-library classification terms, subject headings, thesaurus and indexing terms-it certainly results in conformity and stability, which would help greatly in retrieval.…”

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Users Satisfaction Through Better Indexing

Araghi¹

2005

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

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Classification and indexing are two main tools to organize information to serve the users. Information architecture is nothing more than to organize better to achieve this goal. Any user seeks easy access and speed to reach one's information needs. A classifier/indexer must interpret or estimate the users' need in the best possible terms. Ranking algorithms-such as Boolean, Vector, or others-is highly recommended and practiced. Some define Retrieval Strategies as a measure of similarity between a quarry and document. Relevance is a criterion for matching aboutness. Aboutness is a criterion for decision-making. Better indexing, as well as better classification, is a key to reaching the ultimate goal in record management. Some suggestions are made for those who create databases, provide information engines, or manage the information.

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2005

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Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century

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In Search of New Identity for LIS Discipline, with Some References to Iran

Fadaie

2008

IISIT

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The present paper offers that most of the advocates of discipline of library and information science believe that there is a lack of theoretical foundation and rational identity. The author maintains that there has been an error in defining the subject by confusing library with librarianship. That is many researchers have derived the concept of librarianship from library. Therefore they came to define librarianship as an entity only through the social application and services. If instead, a librarian was assumed to be a person who was usually a scholar, with or without the knowledge of classification properly, and if it was further assumed that before establishing any library, at least there has always been one thoughtful person with the enthusiasm of classifying his own tacit or explicit knowledge in order to retrieve, the concept of librarianship could have been derived from the concept of personal seeking of knowledge, or the need of any knowledgeable person who believes in scientific classification for the sake of retrieval. Thus, there has always been the necessity for scientific classification even if there has not been any formal library. So, I propose that librarianship is more related to the knowledge retrieval and classification which is in the mind of all people specially scholars and learned men before the library, as a place for the collection of books and other materials come to being.

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A New Scheme for Library Classification

Cited by 6 publications

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Users Satisfaction Through Better Indexing

Users Satisfaction Through Better Indexing

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In Search of New Identity for LIS Discipline, with Some References to Iran

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