The advent of new information retrieval (IR) technologies and approaches to storage and retrieval provide communities with previously unheard of opportunities for mass documentation, digitization, and the recording of information in all its forms. This book introduces and contextualizes these developments and looks at supporting research in IR, the debates, theories and issues.
Contributed by an international team of experts, each authored chapter provides a snapshot of change...
Table des matières
Foreword – Ina Fourie
Introduction – Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty
1. Encountering on the road to Serendip? Browsing in new information environments – D...
A propos de l’auteur
Dr Allen Foster BA MSc is Director of Postgraduate Studies at the Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University. He holds a Ph D in information beha...