Studi di genere e pari opportunità: uno scavo bibliografico nel catalogo unico dell'Università di Pisa

This paper comes out of a bibliographic research performed through the University of Pisa catalogue carried out by the authors and Mrs. Elena Longoni. Its scope and purpose was to draw out from the catalogue all records about gender studies and equal opportunities. The issue has been the editing of a pertinent bibliography published in March 2008 by SEU (University Editorial Service) and freely available online http://eprints.adm.unipi.it/464/. Based on this experience, in this article are suggested some evaluations on these aspects of our catalogue: semantic research functionalities and semantic access quantity and quality. Nowadays it is possible to observe in OPAC a misconnection between power of indexing languages of library science (subjecting and classification) and tools for information retrieval. In most of the OPACs the semantic access quantity is never complete for the existence of many rules and different choices. A lot of efforts faced to improve semantic access quality and homogeneity have been done over last years. Despite that, mainly in Italy where “Nuovo Soggettario” (the new controlled vocabulary) has been put in place, it’s still possible to come across many mistakes and incongruences.