It’s about the indexing practice inside Faculdade Católica de Belém’s library, where evidence the need of theology specialized thesaurus is needed as a indexing instrument. A theoretical study in documentary language was carried out, with thesaurus focus, besides explaining the indexing concept. The research metodology used is exploratory and it’s divided in two steps: the fisrt one is about the existing indexing instruments whose embrace theology, nationaly and internationaly; the second step is about the Faculdade Católica de Belém’s library case study in order to indetify the indexing strategies and theology information recovery. For data collecting was used individual verbal protocol applied to the librarian and questionarys applied to users, the data analysis was qualitative. It was observerd as the control vocabulary favors the specificity and the indexing language precision, and indexing thesaurus is viable for specialized institutions. It was found that few are indexing instruments for theology area and moderated by specifity, and the library’s indexing practice, for being thelogy specialized, shows difficulty indexing authorized terms and do not handle suitable instruments for representing theological information, so that the specifity level be appropriate for the institution level and its users, consenquently the information recovery also failure in terms of precision capacity, and was evaluated as medium for its users, that despite not being alarming, could be improved. Therefore, with this research was possible identify the indexing instrument importance, like the specialized thesaurus which is a proper tool, for indexing quality mainly in a specialized library.
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