Recent relevance research: Implications for information professionals

Online Information Review

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 389-395

  Greisdorf, Howard ^a,b   Spink, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Information services; Librarians; Libraries; User studies

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; EDUCATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

HUMAN INTERACTIONS; INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS; LIBRARIANS; USER STUDIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0013363541     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520010357356     Document Type: Article

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