书目控制简说

A brief explanation of the bibliographical control

80年代以来,书目控制(BibliographicalControl)在中国得到普遍重视,不仅对其理论进行了许多有益的探讨,重要的是在书目工作实践中得到有效的应用。本文拟就笔者对书目控制的认识作一简要叙述,以供参考讨论。

The bibliographical control was advanced by Egan,M.E.and Shera,J.It covers 4 controlsof document cataloguing resources,bibliographical techniques and metheds,bibliographical functionsand the dissemination of bibliographical information.In the bibliographical control,the bibliographyis a medium between users and documents as users use it and documents are recorded by it.Thebibliographical Control mainly includes,to put it in a nutshell,the transfer from documents tobibliography on the one hand,and the control of bibliography over documents on the other hand.Itconsists of international and national bibliographical control in concrete doing.It plays a part oflever in documentation as it mainly controls documents.Now people have two differentcomprehension about it:1.a specific work or methed;2.an abstract theory.The bibliographicalcontrol undoubtedly belonging to the category of information control theory,is the main contents ofthe bibliography,i.e.the bibligraphy is the subject of studying the theory,methods and history ofbibliographical control.