A importância dos sistemas de automação para a qualidade da atividade de catalogação e recuperação da informação nas bibliotecas

Abstract

It depicts the importance for libraries of a program of automation in all activities, products and services offered by them. It shows the practicality and safety found the information Professional to work with automated cataloging in contrast with the manual cataloging. It exposes the need for software to be compatible with the standards and protocols of international cooperative cataloging as MARC 21 format, RDA code and the Z39.50 protocol. It demonstrates the ease and time saved by the cataloguer when it uses the cooperation of data across institutions that provide the network or libraries that allow you to import your data. It presents the features found by users in search and retrieval of information through online catalogs unlike manuals catalogs. It discusses the main remote services offered to customers of the institutions through catalogs. It Dissertates variety of virtual collections that provide access to various types of documents by users of libraries.