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MINIMUM VOCABULARIES IN INFORMATION INDEXING
R. MOSSWords have no precision, though in information storage and retrieval we are required to act as if they did. We have, therefore, to impose certain arbitrary conditions to reduce…
THE BRADFORD DISTRIBUTION
FERDINAND F. LEIMKUHLERThe distribution of references in a collection of pertinent source documents can be described and predicted by the relation where the parameter ß is related to the subject field…
AN APPLICATION OF UDC TO MACHINE SEARCHING
T.W. CALESS, D.B. KIRKThe UDC as a language for machine retrieval has been tested and found feasible using a collection of seismological literature. The system developed is flexible and can be adjusted…
COMPUTER MANIPULATION OF CLASSIFICATION NOTATIONS
THEODORE C. HINESWhile there has been discussion of the computer manipulability of classification notations from a theoretical viewpoint, there has been little, if any on practical filing. A…
CATALOGUING AND CLASSIFICATION IN BRITISH UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: A SURVEY OF PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES
JOAN FRIEDMAN, ALAN JEFFREYSA survey was made by questionnaire of cataloguing and classification in fifty‐one university libraries. The returned questionnaires revealed many, differences in the…
DOCUMENTATION SURVEY
The Standard Book Numbering Scheme will come into operation this summer (1967). The Agency is jointly supported by J. Whitaker & Sons Ltd, the Council of the British National…
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