Team A : Library Studies: Many Ways to look at a Book! Lecture by Christine Urguhart from Aberystwyth University

On Thursday 9th of May, 2013, I attended a lecture by a visiting lecturer, Christine Urguhart, from Aberystwyth University. The lecture featured the Many Ways to look at a Book!

We started the lecture by listing down the different interacting parts in a library and their relationship with the users. We also discussed the different needs of the different categories of users, i.e. the different needs of the undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and academic staff. The lecturer drew and labeled the relationships.

This soft system methodology should take into consideration the following elements:- Customers, Actors, Transformation, Worldview, Owners, Environment.

There are many variations of soft systems methodology; it is best to match the modeling technique to your business process.

During the lecture, we saw the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records; a conceptual entity-relationship model, intersecting with the Resource Description and Access; a standard for cataloguing.