Libraries and Computing Centers: Issues of Mutual Concern.

Metz, Paul; Potter, William G.

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Libraries and Computing Centers: Issues of Mutual Concern.

Metz, Paul; Potter, William G.

Journal of Academic Librarianship, v14 n6 p372a-72b Jan 1989

The first of two articles discusses the advantages of online subject searching, the recall and precision tradeoff, and possible future developments in electronic searching. The second reviews the experiences of academic libraries that offer online searching of bibliographic, full text, and statistical databases in addition to online catalogs. (CLB)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Online Catalogs, Online Searching, Optical Data Disks, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Subject Index Terms

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