A classificação facetada de Ranganathan aplicada aos arquivos de tv

Abstract

This study focuses on Ranganathan’s faceted classification based on the following questions: which are the characteristics of the faceted classification? Which are the contributions of Ranganathan’s theory to Library Science? How can the faceted classification be applied to organize TV archives? The study also brings a short biography of Ranganathan, as well as his main publications in Library Science and Documentation. A short explanation about the main definitions, characteristics and structure of the Colon Classification, which is a system of classification developed by Ranganathan, is also presented. The Structuralism was adopted as a research method and it was applied to draw our faceted analysis for TV archives. Bibliographies, documentary research and participating observation were used in the practice of this study, as well as exploratory and applied research. The study of librarians who work in TV archives, as well as the main characteristics of the language and the users of TV archives, will be shown as result of this research. The Structuralism was used in the construction of our faceted outline and in the table of classification which also compose the result of this research. It divides the table of classification in main classes and auxiliary table based on the fundamental categories which were proposed by Ranganathan. Finally, it also discusses its contributions for Library Science and Science of Information, and talks about the success and difficulties which were found during the development of this study.