Quantitative Approaches to the Management of Information/Document Retrieval at the University of Illinois.

Rouse, William B., Ed.

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ERIC Number: ED110025

Record Type: Non-Journal

Publication Date: 1975-Jun

Pages: 48

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Quantitative Approaches to the Management of Information/Document Retrieval at the University of Illinois.

Rouse, William B., Ed.

Three papers based on projects produced in a course entitled Operations Research and Library Management, jointly sponsored by the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the Graduate School of Library Science are reported and explained. Topics covered include an assessment of faculty interest in an information retrieval service; modeling closed-stacks document retrieval, and the effect of geographic dispersion of the collection on document retrieval time. (SK)

Descriptors: College Libraries, Data Collection, Documentation, Geographic Distribution, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval, Information Systems, Interlibrary Loans, Library Research, Library Services, Library Surveys, Models, Reference Services, Research Projects

Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data

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Authoring Institution: Illinois Univ., Urbana. Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.; Illinois Univ., Urbana. Graduate School of Library Science.

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