Journal of Documentation: Volume 51 Issue 3

EDITORIAL: Briefs

RICHARD KIMBER

In this issue are published two Briefs — using a new fast‐track route to publication. The first, reporting briefly on recent research by Fowell and Levy, we have categorised as a…

‘FACETS’ AS INTERDISCIPLINARY UNDISCOVERED PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: S.R. RANGANATHAN IN INDIA AND L. GUTTMAN IN ISRAEL

CLARE BEGHTOL

Undiscovered public knowledge is a relatively unstudied phenomenon, and the few extended examples that have been published are intradisciplinary. This paper presents the concept…

AN EVALUATION OF INTERACTIVE QUERY EXPANSION IN AN ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOGUE WITH A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

MICHELINE HANCOCK‐BEAULIEU, MARGARET FIELDHOUSE, THIEN DO

An online library catalogue served as a testbed to evaluate an interactive query expansion facility based on relevance feedback for the Okapi probabilistic term weighting…

HYPER‐LIB: A FORMAL MODEL FOR AN ELECTRONIC LIBRARY BASED ON HYPER‐BOOKS

NADIA CATENAZZI, LORENZO SOMMARUGA

This paper presents hyper‐lib, a model for an electronic library. The hyper‐lib philosophy is based on reproducing the spatial environment of a physical library, in order to…

RESEARCH BRIEF: DEVELOPING A NEW PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: A MODEL FOR NETWORKED LEARNER SUPPORT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

S. FOWELL, P. LEVY

Changes in teaching and learning in higher education, combined with rapid developments in electronic communications and resources, point to a new role for the information…

APPLICATION BRIEF: MEASURING BOOK AVAILABILITY IN AN ACADEMIC LIBRARY: A METHODOLOGICAL COMPARISON

N.A. JACOBS, R.C. YOUNG

This paper describes the methodology and results of a study designed to compare figures derived from a questionnaire‐based book availability survey technique and from computer…