Aslib Proceedings: Volume 30 Issue 5
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The Information Unit of the Hajj Research Centre
Ziauddin SardarThe HAJJ Research Centre was set up in 1975 at the King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with the aim of studying the environment of Hajj—the annual pilgrimage to the…
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Micropublishing and libraries in the future
Peter A. ThomasI suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. St John, Chapter 21, verse 25.
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The concept of ‘aboutness’ in subject indexing
W.J. HutchinsThe common view of the ‘aboutness’ of documents is that the index entries (or classifications) assigned to documents represent or indicate in some way the total contents of…
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‘Aboutness’ as a strategy for retrieval in the social sciences
D.F. Swift, V. Winn, D. BramerIndexing systems have traditionally been geared to cater for search requests of the form ‘documents about…’. It is far from clear what is meant by the notion ‘about’, but the…
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