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Marcia Bates on Search Systems

The Informed Life

CHAPTER

Sarah Mapp's Cluster Vocabulary

In the 70s, there was online searching on telephone lines that was done to databases in different academic areas. The librarians not only learned the search well, they learned to prepare well so that when they went on, they were using the database for only a few minutes. And because of the sort of Boolean logical structure of these search systems that the companies had, it required real skill. That's that all world, led ultimately to Sarah Mapp's cluster vocabulary.

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