Planned intervention: On Thursday March 28th 07:00 UTC Zenodo will be unavailable for up to 5 minutes to perform a database upgrade.
Published May 26, 2015 | Version v1
Conference paper Open

Investigating Mental Models of Cataloguers as the First Step Towards the Development of Intuitive Cataloguer’s Tools

  • 1. University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts

Description

The roles library professionals play in bibliographic information systems are
constantly evolving with the changing information environment and demanding
users. In terms of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
(FRBR) (1998), the new paradigm relating to the bibliographic universe is
driving new requirements for data preparation and that represents a dramatic
change in how cataloguers think; in other words, in their mental models
(Rose, 2012: 129).
Therefore, a study of the cataloguers’ mental models of the bibliographic
universe was carried out to investigate whether the FRBR structure would be
confirmed by mental models of cataloguers. Our method for elicitation of
mental models is based on concept mapping, which is well suited for representing
mental models of individuals (Jackson & Trochim, 2002: 312). The
findings of our study show that on average cataloguers’ mental models resemble
the FRBR conceptual model.

Files

s2_106-117.pdf

Files (417.8 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:d8c371f9793f7084d42cadec9b60cf5c
417.8 kB Preview Download