Users' perception of navigating bibliographic families from IFLA-LRM perspective
ISSN: 0737-8831
Article publication date: 21 December 2020
Issue publication date: 14 February 2022
Abstract
Purpose
This paper focuses on the way users navigate bibliographic families not only when a user has no specific document in mind but also when he/she has a specific predefined need in mind.
Design/methodology/approach
To this end, the Epic of Kings was selected as a test-bed for the study and both situations were studied based on International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions-Library Reference Model (IFLA-LRM), but the potential users (participants of this study) were not directly exposed to the entities of the model. Card sorting, interview and distributing questionnaire constituted the data-gathering process.
Findings
Almost all of the participants in this study, when they had no specific resource in mind, generated a top-down view of the family, and in this view, all of them disregarded the item entity and lots of them disregarded the manifestations also. Yet on the other side, when they were asked to assume themselves in certain situations (in need of a specific work with a predefined expression and format), they viewed the bibliographic family from a bottom-up approach.
Originality/value
Most of the studies in this area regard the navigation process of users as a top-down approach and the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) family as a model suitable for hierarchical top-down visualization of bibliographic families. Yet this study poses the bottom-up approach of users regarding the family.
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Acknowledgements
This paper forms part of a special section “Wayfinding from the User's Perspective: The Connection between User Experience and Library Wayfinding”, guest edited by Ryan Litsey.
Citation
Arastoopoor, S. (2022), "Users' perception of navigating bibliographic families from IFLA-LRM perspective", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 40 No. 1, pp. 265-280. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-12-2019-0240
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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