Louise F. Spiteri School of Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Louise.Spiteri@dal.ca This paper examines the suitability of word association tests to generate user-derived descriptors, descriptor hierarchies, and...
Mike Thelwall School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wolverhampton Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, UK m.thelwall@wlv.ac.uk Digital libraries and the Web have brought enormously powerful search mechanisms to the desktops of many...
Joan Starr Joanstarr@earthlink.net San José State University Background From the perspective of all of human history, a twenty-year period— one score —is a brief moment. In the immediate context of our harried electronic age, however, twenty years are enough for three...
Julie Still Reference Librarian Paul Robeson Library Rutgers University Paul Robeson Library 300 N. 4th St. Camden, NJ 08102 856 225-2846 856 225-6428 (fax) The image of librarians in fiction and the media has been widely discussed in the professional literature, but...
Nancy Allmang, Reference Librarian nancy.allmang@nist.gov Rosa Liu, Research Library and Information Group Leader rosa.liu@nist.gov Susan Sanders, former Deputy Chief, Information Services Division susansanders@comcast.net Information Services Division National...
