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Publication date: 1 January 1956

CALVIN N. MOOERS

It is a pleasure, as a visitor to your country, to find myself invited to talk to this audience about information retrieval. The invitation, as it came to me, contained the…

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It is a pleasure, as a visitor to your country, to find myself invited to talk to this audience about information retrieval. The invitation, as it came to me, contained the implication that there was a considerable curiosity here about my activities in this field in the United States. Some preliminary reconnoitring before the meeting convinced me that this was indeed the case. Your curiosity, then, furnishes me with an excellent excuse to talk about a number of things that I have been doing over the past few years.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 8 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 January 1956

E.M.R. DITMAS

On 7th September, 1955, a lecture was organized jointly by Aslib with the Aslib Aeronautical Group and was held in London at the Royal Society of Arts. The lecturer was Mr. Calvin

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On 7th September, 1955, a lecture was organized jointly by Aslib with the Aslib Aeronautical Group and was held in London at the Royal Society of Arts. The lecturer was Mr. Calvin N. Mooers, founder and research director of the Zator Company, which offers consulting services in information retrieval systems. His paper, ‘Zatocoding and development in information retrieval’, together with a report of the discussion which followed under the Chairmanship of Mr. Agard Evans, of the Ministry of Works Library, is printed in full in this issue.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 8 no. 1
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ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 February 1963

P.L. ERSKINE

The search for an easily installed, practicable and inexpensive information retrieval system continues unabated. This is reflected in the Aslib Library almost daily by requests…

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The search for an easily installed, practicable and inexpensive information retrieval system continues unabated. This is reflected in the Aslib Library almost daily by requests for advice on the feasibility of installing this or that system, or for information on what systems are available in Great Britain. Study of the following bibliography, which covers only a narrow selection of information retrieval systems, will reveal that much original thought has been producing concrete results in this country. In fact, one of the earliest references is to a paper given at the twenty‐second Aslib Conference in 1947 by W. E. Batten, in which he describes his development of an ‘aspect’ card system—more often referred to today as ‘Peek‐a‐boo’ or ‘feature’ cards. Mr C. W. Cleverdon's Cranfield project is also adding considerable knowledge on the use of various indexing methods, including Uniterm.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 15 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 February 1974

CALVIN N. MOOERS

The papers by Robert A. Fairthorne are always both stimulating and challenging to me. Their insights and their obscurities are fascinating. While my own intellectual works have…

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The papers by Robert A. Fairthorne are always both stimulating and challenging to me. Their insights and their obscurities are fascinating. While my own intellectual works have usually been quite separate from his, we have frequently shared a concern with many of the same topics in the principles of information work. These have included such topics as the mathematical basis of classification, applications of mathematical lattice theory, insights from Shannon's signalling theory (habitually misnamed ‘information theory’), and the delegation of retrieval.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 30 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 August 1960

CALVIN N. MOOERS

The ‘Tape Typewriter Plan’ is a plan for making possible a widespread co‐operation in documentation between libraries, while at the same time facilitating the internal clerical…

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The ‘Tape Typewriter Plan’ is a plan for making possible a widespread co‐operation in documentation between libraries, while at the same time facilitating the internal clerical and cataloguing operations at individual libraries. The plan is based upon the use of a tape‐controlled typewriter and the associated use of the full capabilities of modern information processing machines (electronic computers and their related devices). Any individual library requires only a tape typewriter in order to enter the plan and to become a full co‐operator. By the exchange of tapes between libraries, the present enormous duplication of bibliographic work at co‐operating libraries can be markedly reduced, because keyboard operations performed at one library can be used to make catalogue cards at another. Conformity to any single classification system or to any specific catalogue card format is definitely not required by the plan, since the information processing machines operating on the tapes produced can make new tapes for other formats and can perform translations from one classification system to another. The information processing machines can also be used for rapid compilation of special indexes, lists, selected bibliographies, union catalogues, lists of holdings geographically, etc., for the documentary resources of all the co‐operating libraries. A most important aspect of the plan is that it will not require setting up a unique large‐scale universal documentation centre for processing, search, or storage. The plan does not require conformity in the choice of tape‐typewriter equipment to be employed. The plan does not require library ownership of computing equipment, nor does it depend upon any specific choice of computing equipment. The plan is shown to be self‐motivating, with participation at each library following from the library's own assessment of its self‐interest.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 12 no. 8
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Publication date: 1 February 1960

All itmems listed may be borrowed from the Aslib Library, except those marked, which may be consulted in the Library.

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All itmems listed may be borrowed from the Aslib Library, except those marked, which may be consulted in the Library.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 12 no. 2
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Publication date: 1 March 1991

Michael E.D. Koenig and Marianne Broadbent

In order to manage library or information functions you must be able to persuasively communicate with your management. To accomplish this, you must communicate in the language of…

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In order to manage library or information functions you must be able to persuasively communicate with your management. To accomplish this, you must communicate in the language of your management, marshalling trendy and persuasive points on your own behalf With that as a given, there has been a very heartening development over the last few years for library and information managers—a burgeoning management attention to information.

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The Bottom Line, vol. 4 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0888-045X

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Publication date: 1 January 1956

J. BIRD

King, A. General Policy of E.P.A. O.E.E.C. European Productivity Agency. Report on the second meeting of technical information officers, 1955, pp. 59–65. [The information…

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King, A. General Policy of E.P.A. O.E.E.C. European Productivity Agency. Report on the second meeting of technical information officers, 1955, pp. 59–65. [The information activities of the E.P.A. fall into two categories: the exchange of information and the promotion of new developments through personal contacts. An example of the latter is the study being made of all aspects of automation. It is not enough to exchange technical information between scientists, it must be taken to non‐technical persons, and the small firms must be encouraged to make use of it. In addition there is need of more study of the non‐technical aspects of productivity: production engineering, work study, and the economic, social, and psychological implications. These are best tackled by teams of experts drawn from different disciplines.]

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 12 no. 1
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ISSN: 0022-0418

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Publication date: 1 April 1965

HELEN L. BROWNSON

Interest in the objective testing and evaluation of document searching systems and procedures has grown steadily during the past decade. The reason for such interest is perhaps…

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Interest in the objective testing and evaluation of document searching systems and procedures has grown steadily during the past decade. The reason for such interest is perhaps obvious: a great deal of attention has been, and is being, given to the development of new methods, including mechanized methods, for storing and searching characterizations of scientific and technical documents. To determine the effectiveness and utility of these new methods, particularly in comparison with the more conventional methods still in use, we need objective means of assessing their performance. Although some progress has been made, much remains to be done on the development of evaluation methods and criteria, a high priority area of study in the view of many individuals and organizations.

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Journal of Documentation, vol. 21 no. 4
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Publication date: 1 January 1995

James Rettig

It all began a very long time ago, sometime before 1876, that annus mirabilis of librarianship during which the American Library Association was founded, Library Journal debuted…

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It all began a very long time ago, sometime before 1876, that annus mirabilis of librarianship during which the American Library Association was founded, Library Journal debuted, and Samuel Green published in its pages the first article about reference librarianship. And it continues today. In April 1994, an unidentified library school student from the State University of New York at Buffalo queried the participants of the LIBREFL listserv, asking them, “Can you give a summary of the ‘hot’ library reference issues of the week? I'm working on a project for my Reference course, and would like to find out what is REALLY vital to refernce (sic) librarians out there today.” I was tempted to reply that all of that week's “hot” issues were identified in Green's 1876 article. In that article describing the phenomenon we today call reference service, Green touched on issues such as the librarian's obligation to provide information without injecting personal values, the inability of any librarian to know everything, the need sometimes to refer a patron to another information agency, SDI services, the value of proactive rather than passive service, the challenges of the reference interview, and, of course, what has come to be called the “information versus instruction debate.”

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Reference Services Review, vol. 23 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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