Nélida Piñon Personal Collection: cataloguing documents from the Nélida Piñon Library at Instituto Cervantes Rio de Janeiro: a case study

Abstract

A paper given at the "Universal Bibliographic Control at the crossroads: the challenges of unifying IFLA bibliographic standards" Satellite Meeting, organised by the IFLA Bibliography, Subject Analysis and Access, and Cataloguing Sections.

The purpose of this paper is discussing some aspects of the cataloguing process of the documents from the personal collection of the writer Nélida Piñon, which was donated to the library of the Cervantes Institute in Rio de Janeiro. This collection gathers around 8,000 documents from the Humanities area and they are in several languages. Many works have dedications and origin marks, among other characteristics. The Nélida Piñon Library is part of the Cervantes Institute Libraries Network - RBIC - which has a collection development policy as well as a cataloguing and document classification system, defined for the network collective catalogue. To meet this need, a cataloguing project was developed and is being carried out under the consultancy of the Art Libraries and Information Centres Network of the State of Rio de Janeiro - REDARTE/RJ. Taking into consideration that RBIC is a network of Spanish libraries, a profile of the cataloguer's competencies was established in order to perform the descriptive representation of the personal collection of Nélida Piñon to meet the RBIC procedures, such as good knowledge of the Spanish language and culture, knowledge of other languages (English, French, German, Italian, Galician, Catalan), experience with UDC, RDA, MARC21,...