Commentary: The Bookcase vs . the Library: What is the Future of IR ? Michael Les k Bell Communications Research Morristown, New Jersey an d University College London, U K When Vannevar Bush, in his 1945 article "As We May Think," 1 started the field o f information retrieval, he imagined a system which stored both library books an d personal notes in a local desk like device . If we had his "Memex" today, we would probably call it the Scholar's Workbench or some such title . But what has actually happened as systems have been built over the years? They do not usually provid e access to your own notes ; rather they provide access to libraries of traditiona l literature . And they do not usually store the information in your desk ; you share a large central file . Historically, the information retrieval industry grew out of the secondary scientifi c publications : the abstracting and indexing journals . These organizations were earl y converts to computerized typesetting, which permitted them, for example, t o accumulate their collected indexes by mechanical means . Then services wer e introduced which permitted users to search databases
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The bookcase vs. the library: what is the future of IR?
Lesk, Michael
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Association for Computing Machinery – Apr 1, 1987
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