Comparative study of library science thesaurus in Spanish

WITH THE INTENTION OF CONSERVING A SENSE OF IDENTITY IN THE DIFFERENT SPANISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES WHILE TRYING NOT TO LOSE THE COMMON DISCIPLINARY TERMINOLOGY, A LATIN AMERICAN LIBRARY SCIENCE THESAURUS AND ANOTHER ONE ELABORATED IN SPAIN, ARE COMPARED. THE AIM IS TO EXTRACT TERMINOLOGICAL SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IMPOSED BY THE SOCIO-CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC ENVIRON­MENTS IN WHICH THOSE THESAURI HAVE DEVELOPED, ON THE ONE PART, AND TO DEFINE THE INFORMATION THEY SHOULD PROVIDE, ON THE OTHER, IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH RECOMMEN­DATIONS FOR THE PRESENTATION OF THE THESAURUS. TERMI­NOLOGICAL ANALYSIS IN A GIVEN DISCIPLINE AND LANGUAGE CONTRIBUTE TO THE UNDERSTANDING NOT ONLY OF THE LIN­GUISTIC UNITS THEY REPRESENT AND THAT SERVE AS VEHICLES FOR SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE, BUT ALSO TO RECOGNIZE DISCI­PLINARY DIFFERENCES OR STRUCTURES OF SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT EXPRESSED IN THE LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE WHICH WILL GIVE FORM TO A THESAURUS.