Resource descriptions and the User

Its interesting that at the heart of any system that a library or any information organisation employs is the users themselves. This was driven home in the physical library sense while on the study visit and I can also see how this marries well with the idea of metadata creation  and the physical arrangement of information resources in a library. For what is the point of using a system to describe a resource is it doesn't apply the terms, values or records those attributes that the user will utilise in searching?

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ETL 505

ETL 505

So begins ETL505 Information Resource Description. It sounds dry and difficult - I am wading through the text with its many terms and new vocabulary that I am trying to digest and wondering if I will get my head around things. Essentially though, information resource description is the metadata that one creates about an information resource that help users to find and access the resources they need to gain the knowledge they want.

I came across this image and thought that it quite aptly shows what I mean.

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