Library Collection
Library collections means an item that can be use in public. Library collections can be included an item such as books, sound recording, equipment, licensed databases and more.
WHAT IS CLASSIFICATION OF TRADITIONAL LIBRARY COLLECTION BASED ON THEORISTM?
S. R. Ranganathan’s Classification can be divided into four (4) categories which are:
1. Conventional Documents
a. The most popular documents to be use by any users.
b. A formal, standard, or common documents that had been use by users
c. The content was recorded in a natural language which are recorded by writing, typing, printing, or some near-printing process.
d. Examples:
i. Books
ii. Maps
iii. Periodicals
iv. Atlas
2. Neo-conventional Documents
a. A new class of micro-documents.
b. Examples:
i. Reaction formulae in chemistry
ii. Data of properties
iii. Standards
iv. Specifications
v. Patents
3. Non-conventional Documents
a. Micro reproduction of “Conventional Documents”.
b. The documents are recorded in non-conventional size, shape, or material.
c. Examples:
i. Micro copy
ii. Audio-visual
iii. Audio
iv. Visual
4. Meta Documents
a. A record of national or social phenomenon which is got through the instrumental and mechanical devices
b. It made directly unmediated by the human mind before or after it got transformed into a thought and got into the human mind
c. Examples:
i. Instrument’s technology
ii. Photography
iii. Radar
Hanson’s Classification was divided into two (2) categories which are:
1. Primary
a. Books, dissertations, reports, periodicals, and more
2. Secondary
a. Catalogue, indexes, bibliographies, indexing, and more.
Grogan’s Classification have been divided into three (3) categories which are:
1. Primary
a. Periodicals, patents, trade literature, research report, and other sources.
2. Secondary
a. Indexing and Abstracting Journals, Reviews of Progress, Monographs, Text-books, and more.
3. Tertiary
WHAT TYPES OF COLLECTION THAT WE HAVE IN OUR LIBRARY?
There a few types of collections that we have in our library which is divided into three (3) categories which are Library Core Materials, Non-Book Materials, and Electronic Resources.
Library Core Materials
Text Books
Non-book Materials
The reading materials that may be in printed and non-printed forms such as:
Video cassettes
Newspapers
Manuscripts
Manuscripts is the media of transmission because of its knowledge for centuries of years for the country. Manuscripts is the only material that have handwritten copies of the text of literature which are mainly written in Sanskrit or of the vernacular language
Electronic Resources
a. Considered as resources which help in collection development besides, we can access the
information through the internet.
b. Can be classified in two (2) types:
Primary Sources
1) Primary sources are the data that has been generated by the researcher which is considered as the real time data and has being collect in a long term.
2) The primary sources that we have in electronic resources are:
E-Books
E-Journals
Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD)
ETD is a research of work that has been done by the individual which is consists his/her ideas in it. Most of the databases of ETDs are for academic and scientific community.
1) Includes the databases of references numerical, statistical and bibliographies information
Indexing/Abstracting Databases.
Examples: SCOPUS, Dialog, OCLC first search, and more.
Economic and Statistical Data.
Examples: Census Databases, Asian Development Bank.
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