Organization and representation of information in the source catalog

Abstract

The research aims to analyze the organization and representation of information in the service and product of the catalog card offered by public HEIs, limiting the research to the central libraries of the Federal University of Pará and the Federal Rural University of the Amazon. The research is descriptive as to the objective, with a qualitative-quantitative approach and of a basic nature. The procedures used were the bibliographic research to build the theoretical framework based on Mey (1995), Borges et al. (2019), Alves (2009) and Lima and Alvares (2012). Documentary research was also carried out, such as the Anglo-American Cataloging Code, Resolution n. 184/2017 of the Federal Council of Librarianship and the catalog sheets issued by the participating institutions. In addition, the application of an interview through an electronic form was necessary to build the profile of the participating librarians and institutions. In the cataloging services provided by the institutions studied, there is a variation in the application of guidelines for the preparation, despite the source of guidance for the descriptive representation of the material being the same for both, the AACR2. In addition, the service has as a product a result of the informational work of the librarian and both have not yet adopted the Resolution n. 184/2017 of the board, which makes it mandatory to describe the name and registration of the information professional responsible for the file in documents of any nature.