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SCIENTISTS AND INFORMATION: I. USING CLUSTER ANALYSIS TO IDENTIFY INFORMATION STYLE
JUDITH PALMERSemi‐structured, in‐depth interviews were used to explore the influence of personality, discipline and organisational structure on the information behaviour of biochemists…
THE PROFESSION'S MODELS OF INFORMATION: A COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
REBECCA GREENThis study establishes three predominant cognitive models of information and the information transfer process manifest in the literature of library and information science, based…
A COGNITIVE PROCESS MODEL OF DOCUMENT INDEXING
JOHN F. FARROWClassification, indexing and abstracting can all be regarded as summarisations of the content of a document. A model of text comprehension by indexers (including classifiers and…
A NOTE ON THE LITERAL INTELLIGENCE OF COMPUTERS AND DOCUMENTS
JULIAN WARNERSpeculations on the possibility of computers displaying intelligence are usually traced to Turing's 1950 paper, ‘Computing machinery and intelligence’. Claims for the literal…
CHANCE AND THE NLL
DONALD URQUHARTIt is now three decades since the National Lending Library for Science and Technology (the NLL) began operations at Boston Spa. It was only after I had prepared my story of the…
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- Prof David Bawden