Indexer efficiency and synergy of science

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Arts South Valley University

Abstract

This research seeks to highlight the value of cooperation between library science and allied sciences, and the extent of its impact on the efficiency of the indexer, and to identify the skills that he  should possess to achieve the highest quality in the preparation of bibliographic records.
The research relies on the descriptive analytical approach in presenting and detailing the scientific material, and criticizing its parts, in an attempt to bring understanding closer and focus on the problems of the indexing process represented in the introduction of bibliographic records that I reached through my applied study, whose content is to ensure the quality of the bibliographic recordings and the extent of their impact on research and retrieval in the unified index of South Valley University libraries, and documenting references on the(APA7) system.
This research sheds light on the lack of technological skills, language skills, and a broad culture that achieves the quality of production and performance efficiency, and the result of this is the extraction of an indexer of scientific and professional value, fulfilling all the necessary skills to achieve the goals of library institutions in general, and library disciplines in particular, and this is in the service of the beneficiary who represents the focus of libraries and his access to the information container easily.
Among the most prominent findings of the researcher: the need for the indexer to acquire advanced technological and library skills to keep pace with the times, as well as knowledge of the sufficient rules of Arabic and foreign language formulation, and not limited to the use of a specialist only, because of the invalidity of this behavior in all situations, and the lack of indexer to continuous access to various knowledge, to be able to determine the subject of various information vessels, and in fact most indexers are not interested in grammar, and do not rely on specialists.
Therefore, the researcher recommends that universities focus on linguistic and cultural auxiliary sciences in a manner not less than the specialization courses, and the student's commitment to make applications to them through the use of the assisting body according to the specialization represented by the course, providing continuous monitoring committees to observe and evaluate the work of the indexer, and providing him with new experiences and skills, intensifying training courses to familiarize himself with linguistic rules, and the use of specialists, especially foreign languages, and applied sciences.
 

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