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- A volume which describes and assesses the key developments
in online information systems and services during one of the
periods of most rapid growth, and which evaluates their likely
effects on future information practice. The book is an indispensible
source of ideas and expert commentary for the reader seeking
a perspective on the current status of online information retrieval.
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- CONTENTS: 'Where's the lady with the toy?': implementation
of an end-user project; End-user searching of bibliographic databases;
Downloading and in-house information retrieval; TINman; state-of-the-art
data transfer; ELAN: a local area network for education and training
of professionals; Public access terminals; Use of full text retrieval
techniques with ISI's databases; The role of the experienced
searcher in the training of intermediaries or end-users; Developments
in online teaching in schools of librarianship and information
science; Training requirements for online: results of a survey;
Making training materials more effective; Investigations into
interactive videodiscs for instruction; EuroDocDel: an experiment
in document delivery; Doing it by digits; electronic document
storage and delivery; Problems and issues in information retrieval.
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- ISBN 0 947568 23 9
- 1987
- £18.00/US$34.00
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- 'a very useful overview of online training projects in
the UK, and as there is a lot of practical information it is
a worthwhile buy.'
- Outlook on Research Libraries
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- 'a wide variety of experimental, evaluative and practical
papers, all presented in an extremely readable form.... provides
an incentive to try out new ideas.'
- Library Review
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