En obekväm samling : Domänanalytiska perspektiv på kunskapsorganisationen av Efter Muren/After The Wall-samlingen vid Konstbiblioteket

Knowledge organization, cataloguing and bibliographic description, are prerequisites for special collections to be used as sources in humanities research and work. The creation of bibliographic records is a crucial function of librarians in special libraries, but research on special collections cataloguing shows that librarians and library institutions frequently overlook use of research-based solutions for bibliographic description of special material. Using domain analytic approaches described by Birger Hjørland, and critical theory of knowledge organization, the following study examines the knowledge organization of material from the Modern Museum project After the Wall: Art and Culture in Post-communist Europe at the Art Library of Swedish National Museum and Modern Museum. With the objective to illustrate the formative effects of knowledge organization, a case study of the cataloguing methods and objectives of the collection was carried out through domain analytic approaches. Results of the analysis concludes that epistemological and ontological approaches of the Art Library and Modern Museum impacts the knowledge organization of the collection. Epistemological claims of the domain have formative effects on the material and its potential as research material and knowledge resource. This is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Science.