Journal of Documentation: Volume 37 Issue 3

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PROGRESS IN DOCUMENTATION: THE BRITISH LIBRARY I973–80

B.C. BLOOMFIELD

Perhaps the first whisper of the British Library(hereinafter BL) may be found in the report of the Parry Committee which recommended the formation of a national policy in regard…

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE BRITISH LIBRARY

D.J. URQUHART

It is now over six years since I retired from the post of Director‐General of the Lending Division of the British Library. Before this I was involved in some of the discussions…

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DOCUMENTS READ AND RELEVANT REFERENCES RETRIEVED AS EFFECTIVENESS MEASURES FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS

BRIAN E. LANTZ

The nature and relative merits of two measures of information retrieval system effectiveness, documents read and relevant references retrieved, are discussed. Using data on 2,380…

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ISSN:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden