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Harnessing the power of knowledge management
Fowler D. netWorker: The Craft of Network Computing 5(3): 18-24, 2001. Type: Article
The goal of knowledge management is to provide an organization with adequate search engines, interfaces and connections to enable information to be located, manipulated, and converted into coherent, useful formats. Fowler’s a...
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Statistical methods for the information professional
Vaughan L., Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, 2001. 240 pp. Type: Book (9781573871105)
The author of this book is a professor of library and information science (LIS) at the University of Western Ontario, where she teaches courses in statistics to both undergraduate and graduate students. Her emphasis is on “th...
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Nov 1 2001 |
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Intelligent technologies in library and information service applications
Lancaster F., Warner A., American Society for Information Science, Silver Springs, MD, 2001. 220 pp. Type: Book (9781573871037)
Lancaster is a well-known teacher of library and information science. In this, his latest book, he and Warner report on a research project sponsored by the American Library Association. The project’s purpose was to examine th...
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Jun 1 2001 |
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Shifts of interactive intentions and information-seeking strategies in interactive information retrieval
Xie H. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(9): 841-857, 2000. Type: Article
Information retrieval (IR) systems are designed primarily to enable users to search for answers to specific queries. However, it has been well documented that people employ different search strategies when using IR systems. The study d...
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Mar 1 2001 |
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Previews and overviews in digital libraries: designing surrogates to support visual information seeking
Greene S., Marchionini G., Plaisant C., Shneiderman B. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(4): 380-393, 2000. Type: Article
In a traditional library or bookstore, one can browse along the shelves reading the titles of books and the names of authors and can flip the pages looking for items of interest. In a digital library, however, these clues are not avail...
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Jun 1 2000 |
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From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure: access to information in the networked world
Borgman C., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000. 324 pp. Type: Book (9780262024730)
The purpose of this book is to connect what is known about the information-related behavior of individuals and institutions and to apply this knowledge to the design of a global information infrastructure (GII) that will improve access...
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Apr 1 2000 |
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World libraries on the information superhighway: preparing for the challenges of the new millennium
Fletcher P., Bertot J. Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2000. Type: Divisible Book
Advances in computers and communication technologies have changed, and will continue to change, the structure and functions of libraries throughout the world. This work is designed to help the library community prepare for the challeng...
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Mar 1 2000 |
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Bibliometric overview of library and information science research in Spain
Cano V. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50(9): 675-680, 1999. Type: Article
As its title indicates, this paper reviews bibliometric research in library and information science (L&IS) in Spain. More specifically, a total of 354 articles published in two major Spanish periodicals from 1977 through 1994 w...
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Aug 1 1999 |
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Cyberbrowsing: information customization on the Web
Berghel H., Berleant D., Foy T., McGuire M. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50(6): 505-513, 1999. Type: Article
Users seeking information on the Web invariably retrieve more documents than they can reasonably use, causing an information overload. The retrieved documents need to be filtered for relevance and then viewed to determine whether they ...
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Jul 1 1999 |
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On the necessity of term dependence in a query space for weighted retrieval
Bollmann-Sdorra P., Raghavan V. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49(13): 1161-1168, 1998. Type: Article
Previous research utilizing the vector space model of a retrievalsystem has shown that the properties of document space and query spaceare not the same. This paper studies the effects of term independenceand demonstrates that requiring...
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