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Salampasis, Michail; Tait, John – Information Processing & Management, 1999
Discusses relevance in distributed information retrieval and presents a method for solving the collection-fusion problem in hypermedia digital libraries. Describes links between hypermedia documents that reside in distributed hypermedia collections that can supply information to allow effective collection fusion, and considers results of…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Hypermedia, Information Retrieval, Library Collections
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Leimkuhler, Ferdinand F. – Journal of Documentation, 1980
Demonstrates, with an example, a relatively simple method for fitting Bradford's law to empirical data to estimate the number of journals and articles in a subject collection. An exact discrete formulation illustrates Bradford's law as a special case of the Zipf-Mandlebrot "rank frequency" law. (Author/RAA)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Citations (References), Evaluation, Library Collections
Wasilko, Peter J. – 1997
The Continuity Project is a research, development, and technology transfer initiative aimed at creating a "Library of the Future" by combining features of an online public access catalog (OPAC) and a campus wide information system (CWIS) with advanced facilities drawn from such areas as artificial intelligence (AI), knowledge…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cataloging, Classification, Computer Mediated Communication
Weinberg, Charles B. – 1973
The past few decades have been an era of rapid growth and expansion for university and research libraries, yet their standards of library services have declined. Specifically, more people more often cannot get the information they seek from the library. The main factors in this decline in service are the rapidly increasing numbers both of volumes…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, College Libraries, Flow Charts, Information Needs
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Hazen, Dan; Horrell, Jeffrey; Merrill-Oldham, Jan – Microform and Imaging Review, 1998
Examines factors to consider when selecting materials to be digitized: copyrights; intellectual nature of the source materials; current and potential users; actual and anticipated nature of use; format and nature of the digital product; describing, delivering, and retaining the digital product; relationships to other digital efforts; and costs and…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Decision Making
Murphy, Brian; Pascoe, Andrew – 1996
A study investigated the attitudes of African students of business English at a British university (University of Brighton, England) toward use of the Internet as an educational resource. Students were given an introduction to Internet use for research on individual projects, surveyed concerning their attitudes toward and initial experiences with…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Attitude Change, Business Communication, Classroom Techniques