Library Philosophy and Practice 2012
Cataloguing in the Era of ICT: What is Happening in Public Libraries of South-East Nigeria
Jacintha U. Eze
The public library, being a local centre for information – making a
Library Philosophy and Practice 2012
Cataloguing in the Era of ICT: What is Happening in Public Libraries of South-East Nigeria
Jacintha U. Eze
The public library, being a local centre for information – making a variety of information and knowledge available to its users, requires a well planned and good method of organizing and keeping the records of its materials. This is the reason why cataloguing and classification in any library should be given the necessary professional touch(s) especially in the era information communication technology (ICT). ICT in the words of Ejedafiru (2010) refers to technology that transmits, stores, creates, displays, shares, or exchanges information by electronic means.
Cataloguing and classification of a book simply put, has to do with sieving out and organizing the bibliographic information of a reading material, arranging them in a particular order and grouping the reading materials mainly books into classes. Cataloguing and classification as well as other library activities/services have witnessed reasonable changes in the era of ICT. In the words of Arkoful (2007), these technologies have accelerated the rate at which library services and routines are carried out.
The work of cataloguers have changed and expanded as no