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Term relevance feedback and mediated database searching: implications for information retrieval practice and systems design
Consistency in the selection of search concepts and search terms
Task complexity affects information seeking and use
A straightforward NF2 relational interface with applications in information retrieval
A framework for the comparative analysis and evaluation of knowledge representation schemes
Indexing Books: N.C. Mulvany. University of Chicago Press, London (1994). xiii + 320 pp., $29.25, ISBN 0-226-55014-1.
The Changing Context of Information. An Introductory Analysis: K. McGarry. Second edition. Library Association Publishing, London (1993). vi + 201 pp., $50.00, ISBN 1-85604-069-0.
Developing New Markets for Information Products: T.G. DiRenzo. National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing, Philadelphia, PA (1993). xi + 123 pp., $60.00, ISBN 0-942308-39-5.
Library Research Models: A Guide to Classification, Cataloging, and Computers: T. Mann. Oxford University Press, New York (1992). xii + 248 pp., $22.50, ISBN 0-19-508190-0.
Text Management: D.T. Dewire, (James Martin/McGraw-Hill Productivity Series) McGraw Hill, New York (1994). xxv + 301 pp., $40.00, ISBN 0-07-016731.1.
The Death of Meaning: G.V. Zito. Praeger, Westport (1993). xi + 162 pp., $49.95, ISBN: 0-275-94674-6.
Measuring the Impact of Information on Development: Michel J. Menou (Ed.). International Development Research Center, Ottawa (1993). ISBN 0-88936-708-6.
Multimedia Systems: John F. Koegel Buford (Ed.). ACM Press (1994). xii + 451 pp., $45.25, ISBN 0-201-53258-1.
Pattern Recognition Engineering: Morton Nadler and Eric P. Smith. John Wiley & Sons, New York (1992). 588 pp., $69.95, ISBN 0-471-62293-1.
Virtual Worlds and Multimedia: Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann (Eds.). John Wiley, Chichester, England (1993). 216 pp., $59.95. ISBN 0-471-93972-2.
Challenges in Indexing Electronic Text and Images: R. Fidel, T. Bellardo Hahn, E.M. Rasmussen, and P.J. Smith (Eds.). Learned Information (ASIS Monograph Series), Medford, NJ (1994). ix + 306 pp., $39.50, ISBN 0-938734-76-8
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Information Technology and Systems: A.E. Cawkell. Bowker Saur, London (1993). vi + 339 pp., $75.00, ISBN 1-85739-036-9
Metacognition: Knowing about Knowing: J. Metcalfe And A.P. Shimamura (Eds.). MIT Press (A Bradford Book), Cambridge, MA (1994). xiii + 334 pp., $32.50, ISBN 0-262-13298-2
From Writing to Computers: J. Warner. Routledge, London and New York (1994). ix + 159 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-415-09612-X
Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers: N.J.A. Sloane And A.D. Wyner (Eds.). IEEE Press, New York (1993). xliv + 924 pp., ISBN 0-7803-0434-9
Software by Design: Harold Salzman and Stephen Rosenthal. Oxford University Press, New York (1994). 348 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-19-508340-7
The Network Nation: Human Communication Via Computer: (Revised edition). S.R. Hiltz and M. Turoff. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1993). xxxi + 557 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-262-58120-5 (pbk)
Software by Design: Shaping Technology and the Workplace: H. Salzman And S. Rosenthal. Oxford University Press, New York (1994). ii + 348 pp., ISBN 0-19-508340-7
Libraries and the Future: Essays on the Library in the Twenty-First Century: F.W. Lancaster (Ed.). Haworth Press, New York (1993). 195 pp., $26.95, ISBN 1-56024-382-1