UDC and children Podgoršek, Mojiceja
Knjižnica,
09/2013, Letnik:
52, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
ABSTRACTKnowing Universal decimal classification is highly desirable nowadays if not a necessity, since the use of UDC number as a search strategy leads to more relevant hits. Besides, searching for ...a particular piece of information without UDC would be very difficult if not even impossible. UDC is very little used in the union catalogue. Classmark only rarely serves as a search tool in computer environment since artificial language, in which it is written, is unintelligible to users. Researches show that the amount of users who make use of such searching and are not librarians is only about 2%. The question is how to use UDC as an effective tool. We could look for the answer also in educating the pupils in primary schools for the use of classmark as a search tool. We can motivate pupils by making them remember all the nine main UDC classes with the help of a memory technique, and thus make this classification friendlier for them. This is not learning by heart but simply a more effective use of memory and about a successful recollection of information when it is needed.
