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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Vol. 52 »

Authors: P. Kent, Kent Kent, Allen Kent
ISBN-13: 9780824720520, ISBN-10: 0824720520
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: June 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: P. Kent

Book Synopsis

This supplement covers topics ranging from academic library funding to visual information querying.

Booknews

Information and library science and communications, but also business, computer science, and oceanography are represented by contributors of the 21 studies. The topics include raising funds for an academic library, content-based access of image and video libraries, an electronic business framework, evaluating software systems, information overload, metadata and the World Wide Web, mobile semi- autonomous robots for urban search and rescue, progress in the technology of nautical charting, semantic patterns in bibliographically coupled documents, developing the World War II collection, and crafting communications policy in a competitive environment. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Contributors to Volume 65	v
	Behavioral Impacts of Consultative Systems: A Structural Model for User Reliance on System Advice	1
	Censorship and the Internet	12
	Computer Networks and the Virtual College	22
	Concept Sorting	43
	CSCD and the Role of Intelligent Agents: The Case of the Aerospace Industry	71
	Database	82
	Distributed Database Systems	99
	Fuzzy Classification of the Chemical Elements	112
	The Information Security Chain in an Organization	139
	Integrating Language and Vision: A Perspective Based on the Notion of Referential Competence	167
	Intelligent Robotic Systems	180
	The Political Economy of Online Education	192
	The Role of Feedback in Assessing the News on Mass Media and the Internet	209
	Service Quality in Academic Libraries	216
	Simulation	233
	A Substance-Theory-Oriented Approach to the Implementation of Organizational DSS	258
	Technology as a Threat to Privacy	295
	United States Information Policy	306
	Usability of User Manuals	315
	User Instruction Issues: Database Searching in the Humanities	330
	User Query Performance with Database Feedback	354

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