Planejamento e elaboração de uma política de indexação para bibliotecas universitárias: um estudo realizado a partir da análise da indexação e da recuperação da informação em catálogo online

Abstract

This study presents the indexing theory and practice in academic libraries, focusing on the quality of indexing and information retrieval from online catalog. In this respect, sending questionnaires to libraries, resorting to bibliographic research and doing a content analysis were used as scientific methods. This study also analyzes some aspects which were pointed out to plan and to carry an indexing policy out from works that were developed by the authors of this paper in academic libraries. It discusses the main definitions and criteria of indexing to choose a better keyword to index documents and to search for information on online catalog. Finally, it analyzes the results which were recovered (recall) after searching on online catalog, aiming to give some examples to be discussed along the indexing policy that was developed to the academic libraries where the authors of this paper have worked as librarians.