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THE POWER OF IMAGES: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE COGNITIVE VIEWPOINT
BERND FROHMANNA discourse analysis of the cognitive viewpoint in library and information science identifies seven discursive strategies which constitute information as a commodity, and persons…
ARGUMENTATION‐BASED INDEXING FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL FROM LEARNED ARTICLES
J.A.A. SILLINCECurrent indexing methods used in automated bibliographic and full text information retrieval assume that knowledge can be adequately represented as a semantic network which is…
AN EVALUATION OF AUTOMATIC QUERY EXPANSION IN AN ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOGUE
MICHELINE HANCOCK‐BEAULIEU, STEPHEN WALKERAn automatic query expansion (AQE) facility in an online catalogue was evaluated in an operational library setting. The Okapi experimental system had other features including…
TOWARDS A NEW EMPHASIS ON ORAL TRADITION AS AN INFORMATION SOURCE IN AFRICAN LIBRARIES
A.A. ALEMNALarge numbers of Africans still living in rural areas are considerably influenced by oral tradition. A lot of information can therefore be obtained through this form of…

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