Concept Briefing

Abstract This brief describes juxtaposition of bibliographic disks and how it helps to formulate effective search strategies resulting in good information retrieval. Collocation is the cataloging edge of bringing together related items, such as titles written by the resembling author, editions, and versions of the equivalent title, or materials on the same topic. This briefing also provides examples of the value of juxtaposition in maintaining a successful program library catalog such as compiling all in all information on Princess Diana in one record would be an example of apposition.Use of collocation in bibliographic records can provide vast improvement in information retrieval. Introduction Cataloging is a register of all bibliographic items found in the library. Items can be any kind of entity that is a library based material (book, magazine, audiobook, etc. ). Bibliographic control, cataloging teaches us, encompasses all the activities winding in creating, organizing, managing, and maintaining the file of an entity record. To maintain consistency in multiple matching entities, catalogers use the touch of collocation to bring them together.The better the catalog, the higher the credibility a library has with its users. Users atomic number 18 more content with fast, completed and effective retrieval of information. All collections, either physical or virtual, are formed with collocation, the process of bringing together related information (Taylor 1999). It is a useful term because it emphasizes the purpose of collection construction and can be applied to the different means used to bring together materials. Collocation is practically associated with physical location, such as when materials written by the same author are placed together on shelves in library.A library catalogue also provides collocation by bringing together care materials through a system of records and references. In the electronic age, collocation is associated with virtua lly grouping materials together, there is reason that people writing about the same concept often do not use the same words to express them. (Taylor, 2009, p. 333) Definition According to Arlene Taylor, collocation is the bringing together of records and/or information resources that are related in some sort (e. g. same author, same work different titles or different editions, same subjects, etc,). As all cataloged materials have a call number, collocated materials can be assigned a collocation device. A number or other designation on an item used to place it side by side(p) to (ie. , collocate with) other items that are like it. (Taylor, 2009, p. 449) Purpose and implications The purpose behind cataloging was established in 1876 by Charles Ammi Cutter. They were (1) to enable a patron to find a book by author, title, or subject (2) to immortalize what the library has by a given author, on a given subject, or in a given kind of literature and (3) to assist in the choice of a boo k as to the edition, or as to its character. Cutters objects describe two distinct-functions for the catalog a finding list function and a collocation (gathering) function. (Intner, 200 , p. 2) In cataloging, all publications of an author are filed in one place under(a) the lintel for the authors name. Editions of a work are together under the heading for the title. Then, finally, all subjects are gathered under a subject heading. Authority control is the procedure by which consistency would be maintained through these various headings. A library patron could search the records by a name, title, or subject search. with collocation, all of these searches are brought together. Primary access points also provide a way to collocate all derivations of the work. If there are several manifestations of a worka translation, an illustrated version, an audio versionchoosing the same primary winding access point for them means that in most retrieval tools they will be displayed together. ( Taylor, 2006, p. 171) Collocation is an fundamental outcome of the practice of choosing primary access points. This access point has proved to be, so far, the only way to collocate all manifestations of a work, including instances when manifestations have different titles, and editions have different authors. (Taylor, 2009, p. 269)