BIBPAMPA: um software para qualificar o processo de catalogação de livros da Biblioteca Municipal Mário Quintana

Abstract

The Mario Quintana Municipal Library has the most varied contents in its collection, serving the entire community, especially students from schools in the city. People go to the library for knowledge, to exchange ideas, or just for a good reading on the spot. The “Program C - Community, Computing, Culture, Communication, Science, Citizenship, Creativity, Collaboration”, which is an extension program existing at the Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA), performed a domain analysis in this library. In the analysis performed, it was mapped several library characteristics, such as capacity and variety of the collection, groups that most frequent the library, as well as identified existing problems, in which UNIPAMPA could help in their resolution. With the intention of contributing to this context, a meeting was held with the librarian, in which it was diagnosed that the biggest problems of the library were concentrated in the cataloging of its collection, which has approximately 36 thousand books. Thus, the objective of this work is to map the current library cataloging process through an exploratory study and to use Software Engineering practices to qualify this process. For this, meetings were held with the responsible librarian, aiming at understanding how the cataloging process is carried out today. This process was criticized and improvements were proposed and reflected in a future process model. Based on the proposed improvements, a system was build, facilitating both the contribution of lay people in the pre-cataloging of books as well as the review and the export of data by the responsible librarian, thus qualifying the library cataloging process and achieving the proposed objectives for this work.