PEMANFAATAN SLIMS DALAM SISTEM KATALOGISASI DI RUMAH BACA ANAK NAGARI DAERAH BUKITTINGGI

Abstract

The impact of technology and internet became the background for the establishment of Rumah Baca Anak Nagari, as well as a component of knowledge management support at RBAN in processing library materials. RBAN used SLiMS as a processing collection system on cataloging and information retrieval activities. This study aims to determine the extent/existence the use of SLiMS application in cataloging system at Rumah Baca Anak Nagari, and the steps of how to operate those application system. This research uses descriptive qualitative research as its method. The findings describe the use of SLiMS application in RBAN is with applying the bibliography feature for the library materials cataloging activity, which produce catalogs and call number labels to facilitate RBAN staff in finding library materials. The operation of SLiMS on the bibliography menu goes through some stages of filling in bibliography descriptions and subject analysis, based on the ISBD bibliography description standard and the DDC classification scheme. It can be concluded that the use of the SLiMS application in RBAN on the bibliography menu runs quite optimally, but has not run optimally in another menu such as membership and circulation features.