Malditang Librarian

I am sharing some of my class notes and reviewers to help test-takers of the Librarians Licensure Examination in the Philippines. This page includes the role of indexing and abstracting in information retrieval and searching. Information retrieval - term for the processes and procedures of searching documents, images, data, and personal information from information stores such as a library, database, or the internet. It usually refers to data, documents, text, and images. Information retrieval is a process and a system is the mechanism or way to carry out the process. An information retrieval system is capable of storing, retrieving, and maintaining information. Database: A large, regularly updated file of digitized information (bibliographic records, abstracts, full-text documents, directory entries, images, statistics, etc.) related to a specific subject or field, consisting of records of uniform format organized for ease and speed of search and retrieval and managed with the ai...

I am sharing some of my class notes and reviewers to help test-takers of the Librarians Licensure Examination in the Philippines. This page includes the history and development of indexing and abstracting, important people, and notable indexes and abstract collections in history. History of Indexing Historical outline: development of Indexes and Indexing The first evidence of the systematic gathering and organizing of written records occurred in Sumer around 3,000 BC. Egyptian and Sumerian writings were done on clay tablets and papyrus. First systematic organization of written records occurred in Sumer around 3, 000 B.C. Around 2, 000 B.C. in China and India, record keeping became part of the society. Early civilizations proposed schemes of knowledge classification and document arrangement (e.g. Greeks used some sort of alphabetic order). In 900 A.D., an encyclopedia was arranged in alphabetical order. During the 15th century, books were published with blank pages and quite wide marg...