Shelf arrangement as curricular content in the undergraduate Librarianship course at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the report of a proposed subject

ABSTRACT Shelf arrangement is the activity that proposes arrangements for documents in furniture according to attributes defined as criteria. Call number is one of the main solutions for arranging documents in the context of libraries and as content developed in undergraduate Librarianship courses in Brazil. In these courses’ curricula, shelf arrangement is usually allocated in part within bibliographic classification systems subjects or within cataloging subjects. The objective of the study is to discuss shelf arrangement and the call number as contents of core subjects of the Federal University of Minas Gerais undergraduate Librarianship course, in order to contextualize and support the experience of offering elective subjects related to the theme as an alternative proposal to the current framework. The methodology consisted of a qualitative double-track exploratory research based on the bibliographic-documentary approach and the intervention-research. As a result, it is observed that, in the analyzed curricular trajectory, shelf arrangement has progressively become restricted to the call number, however, in the absence of this model’s approach as a complex and articulated product. The need to broaden the discussions about the didactic transpositions of contents according to theoretical supports which underpin them is highlighted in the study..

摘要 文献排架（shelf arrangement）是指依据预设属性标准，为馆藏文献规划实体书架存放方案的工作。索书号（call number）是图书馆领域文献排架的核心解决方案之一，同时也是巴西图书馆学本科课程的核心教学内容。在该类课程的培养方案中，文献排架内容通常被纳入文献分类法（bibliographic classification systems）课程或编目（cataloging）课程的教学模块中。本研究旨在探讨米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学（Federal University of Minas Gerais）图书馆学本科专业核心课程中的文献排架与索书号教学内容，以期为当前教学框架下开设相关主题选修课提供情境参考与实践支撑，作为现有教学体系的补充方案。本研究采用基于文献档案研究法与行动研究法的定性双轨探索性研究方法。研究结果显示，在所分析的课程培养方案演进轨迹中，文献排架内容逐渐被窄化为仅围绕索书号展开的教学内容，却未将索书号作为复杂且系统的整体进行阐释。本研究同时强调，需进一步拓展围绕以理论支撑为基础的教学内容转用（didactic transpositions）的相关讨论。