CATALOGATION AS AN INDIRECT ACTION OF INFORMATION MEDIATION

a study based on the perception of SIBI librarians at UFBA

Abstract

Cataloging is a practice of representing information in its physical and content aspects. Performed with a view to the organization and use of information resources in libraries, it is also understood as an indirect action of mediation of information for interfering in the search and retrieval of information and being an intermediate activity to direct relations with users. Thus, this work aims to analyze the perception of librarians in the Library System (SIBI) of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) about cataloging as an indirect action of mediation of information, based on Almeida Júnior's (2009, 2015)conception. As for the methodological design, the research is configured as descriptive, which adopted the case study as a method. He used the interview technique, with the interview script instrument to collect data with the librarians who are members of the Information Processing Sector of SIBI. From the results achieved, it was found that in the perspective of the interviewees, cataloging is a mediation action carried out indirectly in a conscious manner, with a focus on the user and which is consolidated in the use of the catalog. This allowed us to conclude that the librarians carry out their cataloging practices in a conscious manner and understand it as an indirect activity of information mediation. By acting consciously in the mediation process, these librarians use their professional and intellectual potential, in order to represent information in order to mediate the search and retrieval of information by users.