Access and Retrieval of Information on the Highland Ethnic Groups Textiles

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the current situation of knowledge of highland ethnic groups textiles management for textiles of ethnic groups in the highland information sources in Thailand and to study the accessibility and retrieval of knowledge of highland ethnic groups textiles by using qualitative research and collecting information by semi-structured interviewing. Interview participants consisted of 7 librarians or staff and 10 users, totaling 17 people. The study results were divided into 2 parts: 1) the most information sources do not have a written policy operation on the textiles. Only found a textiles operation plan and the agency’s mission operation plan. They provide and collect all information resources. There are analysis, classification, and information storage in different sources. Most information resources have problems about limited supply budget, do not have analysis and classification and the storage of information resources are scattered in many places. 2) The access and retrieval of highland ethnic groups textiles knowledge found that users are intended to be used for the purpose of working, by accessing the textiles knowledge of ethnic groups on highland from institutional information sources, use the manual search method through the Bibliographic database (OPAC) and read the category labels. Problems in retrieving textiles knowledge of highland ethnic groups are use of search terms that are technical or jargon and the lack of search tools.