La representación de la multiculturalidad en los puntos de acceso alfabéticos de materias de las bibliotecas españolas

Main Authors: Agustín-Lacruz, María-Del-Carmen, Yubero, Andrés
Other Authors: Lloret Romero, Nuria
Format: Proceeding NonPeerReviewed application/pdf
Bahasa: es
Terbitan: , 2009
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Online Access: http://eprints.rclis.org/13958/1/2923179.pdf
http://eprints.rclis.org/13958/
Daftar Isi:
  • A comparative analysis of the treatment that multiculturalism subjects receive in the subject authority files of the main Spanish university and public libraries OPACs is offered. The subject heading assigned to monographs published in Spain in 2007 on Foreigners, Interculturality, Ethnic Minorities and Multiculturalism were studied. Books were selected when those terms appeared in the title or subject fields ofthe bibliographic records. The analyzed catalogues are the Collective Catalogue of theNetwork of University Libraries (REBIUN), the Catalogues of the Public Libraries of the State, the Collective Catalogue of the Network of Libraries of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Catalogue of the National Library of Spain.The results are compared by kind of libraries and it investigates the subject headings list that has been used, with special attention to the CSIC Authorities List and the National Library of Spain Authorities List. The concepts are defined, and the terminological equivalences and authorities entries in English and French are analyzed and theauthorities in each language are investigated. Thereafter, the behavior of these concepts in the subject headings authority files used in the afore mentioned catalogues is studied.Finally, the found occurrences are compared. The results demonstrate that, in general, the treatment of the multiculturalism subjects is unsatisfactory.