COURSE CODE :
ACCESS TO INFORMATION (IMD 124)
TITLE :
ASSESSMENT 1 – INDIVIDUAL TASK 1
PREPARED BY :
ATHIRA NAJIHA BINTI ZAINAL
(2021626156)
GROUP :
JIM1102B
PREPARED FOR :
MADAM AZURA BINTI ABDUL JAMIL @ KAMARUDZZAMAN
SUBMISSION DATE :
19 MAY 2022
Impact of Bibliographic Control towards Nation Civilization.
Bibliographic control is the process of identifying, describing, analysing, and classifying
books and other communication materials so that they can be systematically organised,
archived, accessed, and used as required. The purpose of bibliographic control is to provide a
consistent database of information sources so that people are reminded of what information is
accessible and where it could be accessed. The phrase refers to a variety of bibliographic
activities, such as maintaining comprehensive records of published bibliographic materials,
standardising bibliographic descriptions, and allowing physical access through organizations,
networks, or other cooperative activities.
Controlling a bibliography provides a variety of objectives, including functioning as a
guideline for information searches and making searching easier. It is a massively important
component of a successful reference service. To prevent duplication in research and to
promote cooperation in international and inter-institutional information trading and sharing,
bibliography must be controlled. It also involves allowing access to records or materials, as
well as collecting and increasing human knowledge.
A broad term that includes all activities required to create, organise, control, and establish
a document of bibliographic records that portray items held in a library or archival collection,
or source materials identified in an index or database, in order to enable access to all the
information contained in them. The process of defining information resources so that they are
effectively available to users is known as bibliographic control. Users can identify an
information resource and determine whether it would be important to them by establishing a
bibliographic record for it and then classifying it in a database or search engine. It involves
bibliographic data production, storage, management, and retrieval.
National bibliographic control is the process that enables the identification and localization
of information sources inside the country's territory. Apart from identifying, recovering,
collecting, and preserving physical items that belong in the country, it is necessary to develop
bibliographic records that define and identify publications. Without any of the records showing
their availability and providing access to the documents, the publication has no value to the
information community.
When making comparisons between national and universal control, it is extremely crucial
that the national bibliographic organisation be responsible for the existence of authority and
bibliographic records for each and every new publication submitted in accordance with
approved international standards, in addition to collecting items. A degree of universal
bibliographic control might be achievable if all countries attempted to establish national level
bibliographic control.
Bibliographic control can give quality services to users by having a library or information
services in the industry. Clients and end users of this information service are highly conscious
of quality control issues. Any library that ignores bibliographic control is purposefully
misrepresenting and exploiting its resources, and clearly is not providing the services that the
user requires. Bibliographic control is a method of quality assurance in and of itself. It may be
considered as a protection integrated into the catalogue or database to protect the quality of
user and information interaction.
Users can search for information easily through the development of systems and databases
because the computers power has increased, which allows users to do more advanced
searches for any information. People who are very good at bibliographic control concepts can
offer useful information throughout the creation of databases and online platforms. It is fairly
obvious that teaching or learning bibliographic control will continue to be extremely crucial in
order to ensure national and universal bibliographic control, to allow information services to
share resources and cataloguing records, and to provide a high-quality user experience, as
well as to develop more effective online systems.
Bibliographic control also provides the benefits of providing informational guidelines on
resources to the users. It is important because users always look for their goods and services.
It would be useful if there was some guidance so that bibliographic control could exist.
Bibliographic control assists in finding the materials in the library at the moment of purchase,
as well as in terms of publication and location. Before an information resource can be located,
its involvement and identification must be determined. While doing an assignment or studying,
for instance, one of the main abilities that will increase the quality of the research is the ability
to search for valuable information that is related to your studies. This allows students to obtain
the information they need to finish their assignments, especially recent information.
Additionally, bibliographic control assists the user in locating and identifying a book or other
reading material that may be of interest to him. Bibliographic control, which is a consistently
created index, designed to serve as a guide or reference as well as bibliographical information,
to the literature of the topic in the library. It allows the ordinary reader and research student to
keep track of their resources. Users may find the material and determine whether it is useful
to them.
Some of the roles of bibliographic control, according to Hagler (1991), determine the
existence of different categories of information resources as they become accessible. Before
an information resource can be located, its existence and identification must be acknowledged.
Furthermore, ensuring that each information resource or a copy of it can be accessed. The
online public access catalogue (OPAC) at libraries can provide users with location information
such as a call number and identify if an item is accessible. According to Patrick Wilson
(1968), the importance of providing the greatest textual means to an end, which includes the
establishment of tools based on what Wilson refers to as bibliographical instruments that
provide control over a collection of materials. Catalogue-based bibliographic control exists
within the scope of libraries and bibliographic services such as the WorldCat database.
There is also an example of the impact of bibliographic control on national culture, which
has happened in Africa. This is because the African continent is rich in written culture and
activities that are being developed and maintained by its people, not just for posterity but also
for scholars, students, and the bigger bibliographic organizations. It is obvious that information
is developed on a daily basis throughout the African continent, since printing and publishing
have now become the norm. Libraries and resource centres are required to record and make
available information in writing. Bibliographic control has now become a fundamental feature
in information seeking and a significant determinant of book availability and utilisation. People
are the main initiators of this effort in many countries around the world, and because of its
relevance in advanced society, nations and international agencies have taken it seriously.
According to Fourie and Burger (2007), the bibliographic control initiative is so essential,
fundamental, and indispensable to nations like South Africa that no other African country can
rival her commitment right now. The whole fact that a book is archived in a library, on the
internet, or in a resource centre should be enough to give a concerned potential user
encouragement that he or she would be able to acquire and use it. Books, journals,
manuscripts, theses, dissertations, magazines, newspapers, and a variety of other
informational materials are written, printed, and published.
As time passes, actual information on these materials becomes limited. Many people are
totally unaware unless they are listed in the bibliography, which is a list of all the publications.
Nevertheless, the listing must be of a specific type and structured to include important
bibliographic information that will allow a future user to locate it when required. This requires a
system of effective recording and management that comes from a systematic listing of human
communication records.
A bibliographer, Amosu (1968:14-18), addressed the problem of the existence of all sorts
of bibliographies on Africa and national bibliographies created on the continent. She also
researched the bibliographic control of African resources, the issue of coordination for
comprehensive coverage, and the prevention of major overlap, among other issues. In Nigeria,
the National Library of Nigeria has been assigned the task of collecting, organizing, and
publishing a bibliography of all published materials about the country.
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