Förändringar inom kunskapsorganisation vid ett museibibliotek
Etnografiska museets bibliotek i Stockholm
ganization of knowledge at a museum library: Library of the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm in the 20th and the early 21st century [65][pdf.gif] The purpose of this masters thesis is to investigate the organization of knowledge at the Library of the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm during the 20th and the early 21st century. The investigation is focusing on the development of the organization of knowledge, of the catalogues, of the classification system and of the information retrieval. The thesis examines the factors which force the development of the activity at the library and of the organization of knowledge. The study uses a qualitative approach which is based on investigations of different types of catalogues, of the electronic database, of the classification system, of the subject indexing and on interviews. A describing analysis is used. The development of the organisation of knowledge is described as part of the activity at the library. The thesis investigates certain periods in the history of the library and describes some possibilities for the future. The study also gives an account of the process to choose a new system of classification for the new card catalogue during the late years of 1970 Outline of World Cultures OWC and Outline of Cultural Materials OCM. The investigation shows that the older database program functioned very well, but now, during the year 2003 it is time for a new program adapted to the changes needed at the library. By the planned connection to LIBRIS the library will be more accessible on the Internet. The planned co-operation with the libraries at the National Museums of World Culture points to the possibility of access through common catalogues on the home page. The history of the development of organization of knowledge at the Library of the Museum of Ethnography is also a description of how the collection and the knowledge of the museum library have become more and more accessible.