Journal of Documentation: Volume 46 Issue 1

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BODY ENGLISH: THE DILEMMA OF THE PHYSICAL IN THE OBJECTIFICATION OF SUBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES: THE ROLE OF THE BODY IN THINKING

S.D. NEILL

Evidence is presented to show that the body plays a continuing and fundamental part in the process of thinking and the development of the knowledge used to think. The conclusion…

SEMIOTICS, INFORMATION SCIENCE, DOCUMENTS AND COMPUTERS

JULIAN WARNER

Semiotics studies systems of signs. It regards all sign systems as the product of a single human faculty for creating order. The distinction it provides, of signifier, sign and…

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INFORMATION SEEKING IN ONLINE CATALOGUES

JOHN AKEROYD

Three different interfaces for online public access catalogues were evaluated using transaction logging as a methodology. In two cases exercises were set and run against each…

DOCUMENTATION NOTE: PREPARING A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO COLLECTIONS OF MICROFORM MATERIALS

BARBARA B. ALEXANDER, BILL PAGE

The Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A & M University, holds over 3,000,000 microforms. As many of the Evans microform collections are not catalogued, access to them can be…

REVIEWS

Many of the fatuities and disasters attending the introduction of computers into Library and Information Services (LIS) can be ascribed to the ill‐conceived notion that…

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Articles should normally be around 5,000 words in length and will only be considered for publication if they have not previously been published. Two copies should be submitted…

Cover of Journal of Documentation

ISSN:

0022-0418

Online date, start – end:

1945

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof David Bawden