Professional paper
Thesaurus in the field of social work and welfare – social welfare policy branch : a contribution to subject cataloguing
Ksenija Švenda-Radeljak
orcid.org/0000-0002-7194-2834
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The development of the scientific field of social work and welfare has had a significant impact on improving the quality of the Studies in social work and welfare at the Faculty of Law, Zagreb University. The level of professional education improved both in qualitative and quantitative ways. Positive changes in the social work and welfare field have also influenced the development of the Faculty library. The growth in the number of users and the complexity of their requests initiated the standardization of a specialized language and subject analysis for this scientific field. In order to standardize cataloguing, classification and organization of library holdings, and thus enhance information searching and retrieval for users, the library began to build a thesaurus. The simultaneous building of one thesaurus for all areas of social work was not possible due to the multidisciplinary nature of its branches. Hence, a thesaurus was first built only for the area of social policy, which seemed most suitable considering its epistemology and a possibility of building a specific and controlled scientific vocabulary. The future plans include building thesauruses for other branches in the field of social work and welfare, too.
Keywords
thesaurus; indexing; information retrieval; social welfare; social welfare policy
Hrčak ID:
142263
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Publication date:
16.3.2015.
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