Identification of continuing recources as the subject entity : access and search options in the Croatian library OPACs

Predmet interesa ovoga rada jest način sadržajne obrade zbirke neomeđene građe i mogućnost pristupa pomoću predmeta/stručne oznake u knjižnicama. U radu će se razmatrati i istražiti sadržajna obrada neomeđene građe na namjernom uzorku korpusa hrvatske neomeđene građe. U odabranim OPAC-ima hrvatskih knjižnica, metodom promatranja analizirat će se odnos bibliografskih zapisa i sadržajne obrade. Posebno će se promatrati 14 naslova časopisa iz područja društveno-humanističkih znanosti i mogućnost pristupa pomoću predmeta/stručne oznake u odabranim OPAC-ima. Istraživanje će provesti istraživačica analizom bibliografskih zapisa i knjižničnih OPAC-a. S obzirom na nove IFLA-ine standarde FRBR i FRSAD te na Izjavu o Međunarodnim kataložnim načelima, razmatrat će se korisnički pristup, odnosno ciljevi i zadaci knjižničnog kataloga – cilj okupljanja pomoću predmeta, odnosno sadržajnom obradom neomeđene građe u knjižnicama, cilj pronalaženja – mogućnošću njihova predmetnog pretraživanja u knjižničnim katalozima i cilj kretanja između različitih djela istog predmeta. Istraživanje i analiza provedena u ovom radu utvrdit će stanje u hrvatskoj kataložnoj praksi s obzirom na sadržajnu obradu i preporuke za daljnji rad koji treba biti radi zadovoljavanja korisničkog pristupa: pronaći, identificirati, istražiti/odabrati, dobiti.The paper deals with the subject headings systems in the continuing resources collections and the possibility of access by subject /classification codes in library catalogs. The paper will examine and explore subject headings used for continuing resources on the selected sample of Croatian serials and other continuing resources. In the analysis of the selected Croatian libraries’ OPACs the method of observation was used to investigate the relationship between bibliographic records and subject headings systems. Special attention was paid to the fourteen journals from the field of humanities and social sciences, and the possibility of access by subject/classification codes in the selected OPACs. The research was conducted through the analysis of bibliographic records and library OPACs. Taking into account the new IFLA standards FRBR and FRSAD, and the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles, the possibilities of users’ access were also discussed, as well as the goals and objectives of the library catalog – the goal of gathering items through subject cataloguing of continuing resources in libraries, the goal of finding - the possibility of subject headings search in library catalogs, and the goal of easy movement among the different works dealing with the same subject. The research and the analysis presented in this paper describe the current cataloging practices in Croatia regarding the subject cataloguing and give recommendations for future work on how to satisfy the users’ needs by providing access to information: find, identify, search/select, obtain