Patrícia de Almeida

• Ph.D Information Science
• Researcher at Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies – University of Coimbra

No momento presente, Portugal é um país de destino de várias comunidades emigrantes de distintos países. Uma parte destas comunidades provém de território europeu e desloca-se por motivos profissionais ou políticos, no entanto a maioria provém de outros continentes e busca segurança para a ascensão económico-social. Esta realidade reflete-se cada v...

The Five Laws of Library Science1 is not only regarded as one of the most relevant and influential works by Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, but also as a classic of the history of Library and Information Science. This book was the result of Ranganathan’s search for a philosophical foundation of the area and also was the seed of much of his later leg...

No âmbito da Organização do Conhecimento, a indexação revela-se um trabalho minucioso e bastante exigente para o profissional da informação que a executa, envolvendo importantes e difíceis decisões. Tal facto exige um perfil de competências específico, de onde sobressai um conjunto de capacidades pessoais e de proficiências técnicas algo invulgares...

ShiyaliRamamrita Ranganathan is consideredthe father of Librarianship in India. However, given his enormous contribution to this area, his name is well known all over the world. From Ranganathan's work, stands out the Colon Classification”, a faceted system of knowledge organization whose foundations are foundin Prolegomena to Library Classificatio...

The Integrative Levels Classification (ILC) lists phenomena of the real world rather than disciplines. This poses various challenges to represent in ILC fictional, hypothetical or metaphysical entities that are not listed among ordinary “phenomena”. One device to address this are ILC deictic classes for “reality/being”, “the present” and “the exist...

In traditional classification, fictional works are indexed only by their form, genre, and language, while their subject content is believed to be irrelevant. However, recent research suggests that this may not be the best approach. We tested indexing of a small sample of selected fictional works by Integrative Levels Classification (ILC2), a freely...

La determinación de la materia en las obras de ficción es una tarea difícil debido a las especificidades del texto literario. Sin embargo, tal como señalan varios estudios, esta tarea es necesaria y posible de realizar mediante una aproximación a la materia con categorías y teniendo en cuenta el contexto y los usuarios de los servicios de informaci...

We analyze the latest publications on fiction knowledge organization, retrieved from the ISKO data base Knowledge Organization Literature, aiming to outline the current situation of the area as well as to identify trends. We used Hjørland's categories of Knowledge Organization Processes and Knowledge Organization Systems for the analysis. We extrac...

Literatura; Biblioteca Escolar; Inclusão.

Literatura; Representação de assunto; Indexação social

A educação inclusiva vem ganhando cada vez mais destaque nas atividades curriculares e na Biblioteca Escolar. Para que tal suceda, é fundamental que as estratégias de intervenção e que as atividades pedagógicas se mostrem envolventes e diferenciadas. O trabalho do texto literário afigura-se um caminho possível para o desenvolvimentos do processo de...

This paper addresses the technical handling of theater documents in libraries in general. It is intended to reflect on some issues related to documentary description, more specifically the classification and indexing by subject. After a brief overview, procedures are described and examples of instruments for this important work of librarians are pr...

In the context of mediation of reading, the importance of access to information and reading by citizens is recognized, as well as the role assumed by the information services in the construction of reading skills and in the development of citizenship, especially libraries. Because of the relevance if mediation of reading, the objective is to discov...

Ranganathan had an outstanding life, completely devoted to Library Science. Over time, he gained a prodigious reputation not only in India but also worldwide and his theoretical works obtained a significant importance in the field. This paper intends to celebrate Ranganathan’s visionary character, to reaffirm the timeless facet of his work, and to...

Over the last years, information growth has been the source of a large volume and variety of data, therefore new processes to represent, organize, seek and retrieve the information are needed. The background theory that supports the big data settings is diverse, however, one theory has deserved special attention in the literature, not only as a mod...

Introduction: This article focuses on the process by which library users select works of fiction and considers the importance of informal and formal literacy mediation in readers’ advisory practices. Objective: To understand in greater detail how users select works of fiction in order to tailor readers’ advisory practices in the area of literacy m...

In a constantly changing digital world, organizations reflect the paradigm shift. Naturally, information services are expected to take on innovation and show a tipping point in this transformation process. No doubt, digital resources brought considerable gains and increased human capabilities, especially those associated with information and knowle...

Indexing is an old practice and a complex job, particularly in the process of determining the subject (aboutness). Regarding indexing of fictional Literature, the question becomes more difficult, due to the subjectivity and the multidimensionality of the literary work. Traditionally, Literature is not indexed, and classificatory systems address it...

In the current context of the information and knowledge society, the mediation exercised by information professionals plays a decisive role in the appropriation of information by those who need it. As an operative concept of Information Science (IS), mediation has been the subject of research in the area of user studies. Thus, the objective of this...

The conceptual issue of plagiarism is complex and subjective, thus it is important to understand the practices that constitute an infraction of the good use of information. We propose to highlight and assess the contribution of academic libraries to the prevention of plagiarism following a qualitative methodological approach and a systematic litera...

A mediação exercida pelos profissionais da informação parece assumir um papel decisivo na apropriação da informação. Daí que, enquanto conceito operatório da Ciência da Informação (CI), a mediação seja objeto de investigação. Este trabalho tem como objetivos conhecer e mapear o interesse que a CI tem mostrado pelo tema e confirmar a sua importância...

RESUMO: Este trabalho discute os desafios que estão sendo colocados à Literatura enquanto fonte de informação científica da História. Ilustra-se a questão com literatura acadêmica, nomeadamente com alguns casos de estudo dos últimos dez anos. Verifica-se que o contributo da Literatura como fonte de informação histórica é autêntico, abrangente no te...

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Introdução: Num contexto de acesso aberto à informação e de access revolution, os investigadores libertam-se de um meio fechado e, muitas vezes, pago para produzir ciência num ambiente livre e aberto a todos os públicos. Esta é a chamada Ciência Aberta, uma infraestrutura pragmática, pública e democrática, onde existe partilha de conhecimento entre...

We study how the concepts of exhaustivity and specificity are addressed in the publications of the ISKO international meeting proceedings for the period 2000-2017. In particular, we analyze the aspects related to thematic proximity and the methodological approaches in these publications. For the selection and analysis of the corpus we used an ad-ho...

In the informational paradigm of Web 2.0, information and documentation services deal with folksonomy practices, including collaborative tagging by producers and consumers of online resources. Studies reveal that some libraries have already implemented a 2.0 catalog and benefit from the collaboration of its users in many areas of knowledge, however...

A Literacia da Informação (LI) é tida por importantes organismos internacionais como uma competência básica do cidadão para evoluir em igualdade de condições na sociedade da informação e do conhecimento, sendo nuclear para a integração social e o sucesso pessoal e profissional. Neste sentido, importa desenvolver cedo competências de LI e em ambient...

In a society excited about new technologies, Education seems to be seen as an analogical area, where the integration of the digital element is difficult. Thus, an attempt was made to better understand the Portuguese situation, in which investigations are scarce, specifically to verify the role digital technologies represent in the classroom in Port...

The contemporary challenge of finding individuality in a mass world is compared with the challenge for information professionals to find the uniqueness in a Big Data world. Information growth has been the source of a large volume and variety of data in different social domains, therefore new perspectives are needed to represent, organize and retrie...

A criação da Rede de Bibliotecas Escolares possibilitou a organização de Bibliotecas Escolares, que vieram garantir aos seus utilizadores o livre acesso aos recursos necessários à aprendizagem e ao desenvolvimento de literacias. Neste percurso, foi fulcral o Professor Bibliotecário (PB), um docente qualificado onde assenta toda esta estrutura. A su...

In a context of Open Access to information and access revolution, researchers free themselves from a closed and often paid means to produce Science in a free environment open to all audiences. This is called Open Science, a pragmatic, public and democratic infrastructure. Here, there is knowledge sharing among the scientific community, society and...

In the web 2.0 era, the description and subject indexing represent a major challenge for memory institutions, particularly in the case of images. The development of new services and forms of communication through social platforms represents not only a change in interaction but also a strategy to turn users into content providers. Thus, the web beco...

No âmbito da avaliação da ciência, onde o artigo científico tem revelado importância e crescimento acentuados, questionam-se as métricas tradicionais, nomeadamente no que respeita à citação e fator de impacto. No sentido de aumentar o número de citações, verifica-se o uso frequente de autocitação. É neste contexto que surge uma investigação com o o...

local history, school library, local collection

The subject Indexing of fiction is a complicated matter. In addition to the difficulties that affect the indexing of non-fiction, the determination of the aboutness of narrative fiction makes the process even more challenging. The disparity in the understandings of the concepts of subject and aboutness (sometimes across languages, such as in the ca...

Subject indexing; fictional literature; aboutness; facet analysis; PMEST

Num modelo de gestão estratégica de serviços e sistemas de informação, a avaliação apresenta-se imprescindível para a verificação da qualidade e para a implementação de eventuais ações corretivas. Neste contexto, procura-se aferir a pertinência de um modelo avaliativo único bem como a adequação de um modelo específico. Para tal, realiza-se um estud...

É reconhecida a importância que a História tem demonstrado junto da Literatura, mostrando-se uma das fontes de inspiração e de informação contextual para esta arte. No entanto, diversos autores e várias investigações recentes têm defendido e mostrado que o inverso também se proporciona, isto é, que a Literatura pode ser considerada uma das fontes d...

The technology and the informational paradigm of web 2.0 have been providing new concepts, new methods and new forms of work in the information and documentation services, specially in libraries. Concepts such as folksonomy and collaborative tagging, as well as indexing practices that are not limited to traditional controlled vocabularies, seem to...

In the assessment of science, where the scientific paper has revealed important and accented growth, the traditional metrics are questioned, namely citation and impact factor numbers. To increase the number of citations, the frequent use of self-citation is verified. An investigation to confirm if this practice is common in studies related to Infor...

Enquanto rede social, o Facebook permite a comunicação facilitada entre cidadãos e a construção de páginas destinadas e promovidas por comunidades virtuais. Atualmente, assiste-se a um interesse crescente pelas questões locais com a consequente constituição de grupos de partilha de lembranças, nomeadamente imagens e acontecimentos de um passado loc...

Resumo: Mercê da quantidade de documentos e do interesse de bibliotecários e utilizadores das bibliotecas nasceu o fundo local. Numa tentativa de recordar, preservar e celebrar o fundo local enquanto resposta à necessidade humana de pertença e de criação de memórias, elabora-se uma revisão bibliográfica sobre o tema e tecem-se algumas considerações...