I 1 1 5 /CLASSIFICATION BY SUBJECTS AND FIELDS

 

Purpose
Mastering theoretical concepts and practical training aimed at enhancing of job performance in classification of library materials.

Goals
Learning basic principles of publications' clasification by subjects and fields and of creating electronic or sheet catalogues.

Subjects
- Classification by subjects, related UNIMARC fields and their retrieval
- instruction-information system
- UDC and other classifications
- UNIMARC fields for UDC numbers' entries and their retrieval
- Relationship and converting subject entries into classification numbers
- Key words
- Automatic indexing
- Indexes' retrieval

Teaching Methods
- Lectures in a traditional classroom with use of projectors
- Lectures in an electronically equipped classroom with use of videobeam

Reference Books
- Brkovic, Ljiljana: Classification by Subjects. Subjects Catalogue, Belgrade, 1997
- Kovacevic, Ljiljana and Jovanovic, Sofija: Rules for Defining Subject Matters of Documents, Belgrade, 1991
- Todorovic, Slobodanka: Classification by Fields Using UDC System, Belgrade, 1991
- Todorovic, Slobodanka: Instructions for Use of UDC Tables, Belgrade, 1997
- Universal Decimal Classification (System tables and Alphabetical Subjects Register), Belgrade, 1991

Lecturers: Slobodanka Todorovic, M.A., Branko Kneževic PhD, Professor, and Gordana Šaponjic-Košutic

Duration: 2 days (8 lectures)

The course is intended for:
- librarians in all types of libraries dealing with cataloguing of publications
- editors of (primarily real) catalogues in all types of libraries
- librarians in all types of libraries working in library reference services, lending departments or reading rooms
- librarians performing "parent" activities in all types of libraries dealing with analysis of use of publications