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THE PARAMETRIC DESCRIPTION OF RETRIEVAL TESTS: PART I: THE BASIC PARAMETERS
S.E. ROBERTSONSome parameters and techniques in use for describing the results of tests on IR systems are analysed. Several considerations outside the scope of the usual 2 x 2 table are…
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ON THE GEOMETRY OF LIBRARIES
A.D. BOOTHIt is shown that to minimize access time to a library collection the items should be arranged so that the access point is distant from individual books in inverse order of their…
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CATALOGUING AND CLASSIFICATION IN BRITISH UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: PART 2: THE LABOUR FORCE
JOAN FRIEDMAN, ALAN JEFFREYSAs we indicated in the first part of this study, the second part was to be a cost analysis of cataloguing and classification, comprising a picture of the activities in the…
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DOCUMENTATION NOTES
LIBRARY ZIPFA recent article by Kozachkov and Khursin, entitled ‘The basic probability distribution in information flow systems,’ describes the fundamental similarity of a number of known…
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- Prof David Bawden