A atividade de indexação: uma construção social da realidade

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the activity index. The librarian is analyzed as a social subject and the indexing process is considered a building. Thus, it is not aimed to find laws, but to identify the meanings given by the index during the process of document review. As a general objective, we sought to understand how effectively the indexing process happens in practice. It is believed that understanding the process of indexing under the phenomenological method is justified by the need to understand the construction process of document review. For this study librarian ineveryday activity is the interaction, as described in phenomenology, i.e., librarian influences the library, which in turn is influenced by it. This way, the index was considered as a product that reflects the process by which it was built, taking influences from the librarian, the type of library, the community served, the vocabulary, the institution of the proceeding the document, among others. For that, this work provided a greater theoretical scope of the activity index as it brought a different approach from traditional theories used in the indexing process.