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Indexing and Abstracting Services in Library A Classical Approach
Indexing and Abstracting Services in Library A Classical Approach
Volume 7 Issue 3, May-June 2023 Available Online: www.ijtsrd.com e-ISSN: 2456 – 6470
INTRODUCTION: Abstracting
Indexing Abstract summarizes the entire study of any research
Indexing has a vigorous part for retrieving paper in 250 0r 500 words. In Latin abstractus “drawn
information which is stored in the library. Its origin away”, means ‘to drag away, detach, pull away,
word is indexed in Latin and its meaning is ‘to point divert’. It helps the reader to decide whether it is
out, to guide, to direct, to locate’. Indexing is for relevant or not to read the whole paper. It covers
index all documents along with full bibliographical whole contextual information for the research paper.
information, so that each document can be traced An abstract can be found as an advertisement of the
easily and faster. Indexing initially called cataloguing whole product.
which is a very old method to classify the contents of 1. Lancaster (2003) defines an abstract as a brief but
items to assist their location. accurate representation of the contents of a
1. The American National Standards Institute document and he opines that an abstract is
different from an extract, an annotation or
defines as, “a systematic guide to item contained
in or concept from a collection (document, group summary.
2. Rowley (1996) defines an abstract as a concise
of documents or set of objects). It is arranged in a
and accurate representation of the content of a
known or stated order, usually different from that
document in a style similar to that of the original
of the items or concepts within the collection
document. She adds that an abstract covers all the
itself.”
main points made in the original document and
2. British standards (BS 3700: 1964) defined as “a usually follows the style and the arrangement of
systematic guide to the text of any reading matter the parent document.
or to the contents of other collected documentary
material, comprising a series of entries, with OBJECTIVES
To study the concept and history of indexing &
headings arranged in alphabetical or other chosen
abstracting terms
order and with references to show where each
To know the types of indexing & abstracting
item indexed is located”.
services in the library