The Abandonment of the Assignment of Subject Headings and Classification Codes in University Libraries Due to the Massive Emergence of Electronic Books

Gil-Leiva, Isidoro; Spotti Lopes Fujita, Mariângela; Díaz Ortuño, Pedro; Dos Reis, Daniela Majorie

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The Abandonment of the Assignment of Subject Headings and Classification Codes in University Libraries Due to the Massive Emergence of Electronic Books

dc.contributor.author	Gil-Leiva, Isidoro
dc.contributor.author	Spotti Lopes Fujita, Mariângela
dc.contributor.author	Díaz Ortuño, Pedro
dc.contributor.author	Dos Reis, Daniela Majorie
dc.contributor.department	Información y Documentación
dc.date.accessioned	2023-12-14T07:23:10Z
dc.date.available	2023-12-14T07:23:10Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description	© 2020. This document is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This document is the Accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Knowledge Organization. To access the final edited and published work see DOI 10.5771/0943-7444-2020-8-646	es
dc.description.abstract	The massive and unstoppable emergence of electronic books in libraries has altered their organization. This disruptive technology has led to structural changes. Currently, an e-book exists only if its metadata exists. The objective of this article is to analyse the impact that the massive incorporation of electronic books in university library systems is having in the processes of assignment of subject headings and classification codes. We carried out a survey of more than six hundred libraries, which means almost all the university libraries in Portugal, Spain, England, United States, Brazil, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Australia. From the results obtained, it is deduced that: 1) librarians expect e books to be provided with descriptive metadata related to the subject headings and classification codes; 2) the biblio graphic records provided by publishers/providers seem to be improvable; 3) the quality of the metadata provided by the providers does not seem to be taken into account when selecting publishers for the purchase; 4) the discovery tools are also clearly improvable; 5) it seems that there is no “frustration” or “stress” among librarians about the changes produced in relation to technical processes; and, 6) it does not seem that we are facing a paradigm shift motivated by these issues.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	22	es
dc.identifier.citation	Knowledge Organization, volumen 47, número 8.
dc.identifier.doi	10.5771/0943-7444-2020-8-646
dc.identifier.issn	0943 – 7444
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/136643
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	International Society for Knowledge Organization	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.subject	Books	es
dc.subject	Libraries	es
dc.subject	Librarians	es
dc.subject	Subject headings	es
dc.subject	Classification	es
dc.subject	Metadata	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales	es
dc.title	The Abandonment of the Assignment of Subject Headings and Classification Codes in University Libraries Due to the Massive Emergence of Electronic Books	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es