Collections in university libraries: manifestations of scientific production

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  • Sayonara Lizton Nascimento-Andre Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1518-2924.2012v17n34p57

Keywords:

University Libraries, Collections, International scientific journals, Content analysis, Information Sciences

Abstract

This research addresses the issue of collections in university libraries regarding the building and development of collections. The main objective is to analyze the characteristics of scientific production related to such topic by developing a documental, exploratory, descriptive and both qualitative and quantitative research. The analyzed corpus consists of several international magazines which supply papers with the topic aforementioned, and which were previously indexed on the Wilson Library Literature and Information Science Full Text from 1998 to 2008. The journals are characterized by containing a large number of papers that deals with the issue of collections in university libraries, as well as by the year of highest production in regard to such issue - in other words, the year with the highest number of publications. The authors who have published papers in those journals are characterized according to: professional formation and action, institution connections, gender, and type of authorship. Also, the authors’ approach to the central issue is categorized, and a qualitative analysis of the content is made based on diverging and/or converging arguments. Through the analysis of the selected journals, it was possible to delineate the authors’ characteristics as well as that of their approach on the issue of university library collections, who, in this sense, have participated on the construction of Knowledge Engineering and Information Sciences concepts throughout the world.

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Author Biography

Sayonara Lizton Nascimento-Andre, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Era estudante da UFSC quando escrevi o artigo, que foi feito a partir do meu Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso em 2010.

Atualmente, sou bibliotecária na Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie em São Paulo.

Published

2012-08-05

How to Cite

NASCIMENTO-ANDRE, Sayonara Lizton. Collections in university libraries: manifestations of scientific production. Encontros Bibli: revista eletrônica de biblioteconomia e ciência da informação, [S. l.], v. 17, n. 34, p. 57–85, 2012. DOI: 10.5007/1518-2924.2012v17n34p57. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2012v17n34p57. Acesso em: 17 may. 2024.

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