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Volume 3, Issue 3
1 March 1993
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Research Article| March 01 1993

Networked Information Retrieval Tools in the Academic Environment: Towards a Cybernetic Library

George H. Brett
George H. Brett
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-5657
Print ISSN: 1066-2243
© MCB UP Limited
1993
Internet Research (1993) 3 (3)
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000003774

Presents the Internet paradox of an information surfeit causing intelligence impoverishment, “information pollution”. Reviews some methods and literature associated with information retrieval in an academic environment. Elucidates a “Virtual Reality” solution, based on expert software and fuzzy logic. Poses related questions, concerned with socio‐technical aspects.

Keywords: Internet, Information technology, Information technology strategy, Libraries, Sociotechnics
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