A percepção dos estudantes da Universidade Federal do Ceará sobre a linguagem de classificação nas bibliotecas universitárias

Abstract

Classification is a process that the man executed since the beginning of its existence. A good example is that made by Aristotle, who conceived the original classification as a mental exercise and organized their predictable (categories). With the improvement of human knowledge, the man felt the need not only to preserve knowledge (as a memory of the world), but to organize. The "explosion" of knowledge highlighted the sort of activity; knowledge has become increasingly evident in several other studies in academic circles. With the specialization of science to the human situation has become harder, since it can not store everything on your mind at any time to recover. So, the Library performs this function because it is a form of classification which aims at reducing complexity in the recovery of knowledge organized in your environment. These reflections in practice to make a search to find answers to the following problem: How to classify literature as a form of representation of the recorded knowledge, adopted in the library system of the UFC is perceived by the user? What is the understanding that users of the library system of the UFC have in language documents used in relation to their area of expertise? The understanding of the language would give more autonomy to them in their search for information in university libraries? What are the difficulties and the facilities on the understanding of the codes used for search and retrieval of information? The research aims to General: To investigate the usability and effectiveness of the classification literature as a form of representation of knowledge in libraries and in the human mind, as a way to recover and sort of know. Specific Objectives: a) analyze the process of understanding the users in relation to bibliographic classification and its influence in the process of retrieval of information, b) identify the advantages and difficulties of understanding of classification systems; c) investigate the strategies that students use for search and location of books in the libraries of the UFC. Methodology: The work is characterized as exploratory research, it has scope to clarify and modify concepts and ideas to help with further questions about the study in question. The method applied in the research is ongoing structuralism, which by means of structures, attempts to explain the reality. The data collection instrument was the questionnaire, with questions mixed. The results show that there is little understanding of students on the understanding of language as an alphanumeric code and also for the association of class to your area of expertise. It was evident the need to improve the signal so that users can understand the classification and to search with greater autonomy.