Enhancing Islamic cataloguing system and cataloguer: an approach to the managerial concept of human and material resources

Abstract

The study of library sciences which included the library information system and the library management which in exact known by the system of library cataloguing and mainly based on Library of Congress Classification (LCC) and Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) already being exist since last few centuries ago. However, the evolvement of this library sciences much dominated by the western scholars and we Muslim just become the user of the system though they are many disagreement regarding Islamic resources and materials being classified including the context of meaning of Arabic words, its synonymy not to mention others such as Islamic sect, ideology, philosophy, areas of specialization and etc. Not that there is no particular attention to the issues of Islamic cataloguing system and Muslim cataloguer, but the percentage or the degree of development is not equally significant with the evolvement of knowledge and technology in our modern time. Unfortunately, our Islamic materials and resources is not properly updated, organized and managed by the Muslim people involved in this field. Therefore, in tandem with the development of the modern technological tools, educational aids and computer sciences, this area supposedly, should be address in earlier stage, creating a great system which integrated the specialization, the areas of study, vast information across field, the systematic development of human resources and etc. Considering all the factors mentioned before, it is a high time for all Islamic organization not only creating awareness about this issues, but synergically involve and immerse themselves in the project of modernization and development of these Islamic cataloguing system and producing an Islamic cataloguer through establishing standard modules and index for Islamic Library Information System needed by the Muslim world.