Information Searching Theory and Practice

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Information Searching Theory and Practice is written by Marcia J Bates and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0981758428 (ISBN 10) and 9780981758428 (ISBN 13).

Searching for information--and succeeding in finding it--is a more interesting and complex process than is usually recognized. Even the most sophisticated automated retrieval systems often fail to incorporate all that we know about human searching behavior. These fifteen papers by Professor Marcia Bates of UCLA address these topics.