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ROBERT ARTHUR FAIRTHORNE: An Appreciation
PERCY B. WALKERBefore documentation became his primary interest, Robert Fairthorne would conventionally have been described as an applied mathematician. Such a description, however, does not…
ROBERT FAIRTHORNE AND THE SCOPE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
B.C. BROOKESShould information science ever succeed in establishing itself as a scientific discipline distinguishable from the other sciences which have already contributed to its presumed…
MECHANIZATION, LIBRARIANSHIP, AND THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENTERPRISE
JESSE H. SHERA‘Are you for or against microfilm?’ Alfred North Whitehead was once asked, and after a moment of reflection he replied in his high‐pitched voice, ‘What a curious question. Why…
USER EVALUATION OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
C.W. CLEVERDONWhile Fairthorne may not have been the first person to recognize it, certainly, for this author, Fairthorne was the first to make explicit the fundamental problems of information…
ANALYSIS OF THE HEXAGON OF NOTIFICATION
CALVIN N. MOOERSThe papers by Robert A. Fairthorne are always both stimulating and challenging to me. Their insights and their obscurities are fascinating. While my own intellectual works have…
THE EVALUATION OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
J. FARRADANEMethods of testing systems in practice and in theory are critically reviewed. Some new theoretical considerations are advanced.
FAIRTHORNE'S TRIADS AS AN AID IN TEACHING INFORMATION SCIENCE
LEA M. BOHNERTIt is pleasant to be able to welcome some theory in a social science field such as librarianship. It is especially pleasing when direct and forceful applications of the theory are…
TOWARDS AUTOMATED MULTI‐DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
BJÖRN V. TELLThe evolutionary process leading to a computerized search facility for giving a current awareness service from a number of magnetic tape services is described. The background for…
MARKING AND PARKING—A SEXIST FABLE
HAROLD WOOSTERMant aeons away, O Best Beloved, there was a large, dank, dim cave inhabited by a tribe of large, fierce, hairy Guardians. They wore dark robes that did not show the dirt; they…
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