The simplest and most popular filing method is the chronological filing system.

CHRONOLOGICAL (by date): This is one of the most common ways, especially for topics that have been talked about for a long time and have changed over their history. Organise it in stages of how the topic has changed: the first definitions of it, then major time periods of change as researchers talked about it, then how it is thought about today.

BROAD-TO-SPECIFIC: Another approach is to start with a section on the general type of issue you're reviewing, then narrow down to increasingly specific issues in the literature until you reach the articles that are most specifically similar to your research question, thesis statement, hypothesis, or proposal. This can be a good way to introduce a lot of background and related facets of your topic when there is not much directly on your topic but you are tying together many related, broader articles.

MAJOR MODELS or MAJOR THEORIES: When there are multiple models or prominent theories, it is a good idea to outline the theories or models that are applied the most in your articles. That way you can group the articles you read by the theoretical framework that each prefers, to get a good overview of the prominent approaches to your concept.

PROMINENT AUTHORS: If a certain researcher started a field, and there are several famous people who developed it more, a good approach can be grouping the famous author/researchers and what each is known to have said about the topic. You can then organise other authors into groups by which famous authors' ideas they are following. With this organisation it can help to look at the citations your articles list in them, to see if there is one author that appears over and over.

CONTRASTING SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT: If you find a dominant argument comes up in your research, with researchers taking two sides and talking about how the other is wrong, you may want to group your literature review by those schools of thought and contrast the differences in their approaches and ideas.

(ii)Chronological filing system

This is a method of filing where records are filed using dates when the record was created. Itcannot be used to file case records except that it can be used to arrange records inside the casefolder. It is not recommended for filing in a big library.(iii)Numerical filing systemIn this system two ways of filing can be adapted:-(a)Straight numerical(b) Terminal digit filing system.(a)Straight Numerical filing systemThis is probably the filing system that comes automatically into people’s mind:-12 3 4 5 6, 12 3 4 5 8. It is probably the most suitable method of filing for small records library wherethere is no necessity to go into the fairly elaborate detail needed to install a terminal digitsystem.(b)Terminal Digit filing systemThe filing system was first used in the United States hospitals and has been the standardmethod of filing in that country. Anyone starting a new records department would be welladvised to start with it from the beginning. The main difficulties experienced with thetraditional sequential filing system are:-(i)Growth is at one end of the file because this is the busiest section of thelibrary.(ii)Gaps are usually left after weeding of notes(iii)Transposition of figures occurs whenever one is dealing with big numbers.Terminal digit filing system overcomes these difficulties. Its mainprinciples are as follows:-(i)The library is divided into 100major sections numbering from 00to 99. Each major section is again divided into 100 sub-sections.This means that the library is now divided into 10,000 sections.Each section should be labelled properly.(ii)The hospital number should be thought of as three pairs of digitse.g. 1 2 3 4 5 6 as 12-34-56. 56 is the terminal digit, 34 is themiddle digit, and 12 is the primary or first digit.a)The record will be filled in the major section appropriate to theterminal digit (last two numbers in section 56.

b)Within major section 56, it goes behind the sub-section guideappropriate to middle digit (middle two numbers) 34.c)It is then filed in he order of primary digit 12.(c)Advantages of terminal digit filling system are:-i.New and old records are evenly distributed throughout therecords library.ii.Chance ensures that an equal number of records and loose filing returns each day toeach major section. Trials have shown that where 1,500 records are filled daily, 150records will be returned to each section dailyiii.There is no annual shift-back or closing up of notes after weeding, to make room fornew records.iv.Sorting notes is simpler.v.New staff find the system very much easier to learn than sequential filing-probablybecause the library is much more static and the 00s are always in the same place.vi.Fever misfiles occur. This is because the filing clerk is concentrating on only twodigits at a time.

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