Descriptor
| Foreign Countries | 3 |
| Reference Services | 3 |
| Referral | 3 |
| Developed Nations | 2 |
| Expert Systems | 2 |
| Gardening | 2 |
| Information Retrieval | 2 |
| Public Libraries | 2 |
| User Needs (Information) | 2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 |
| Budgets | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 3 |
| Reports - Research | 2 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
| Researchers | 2 |
Location
| Australia | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedVickery, A.; Brooks, H. M. – Information Processing and Management, 1987
Presents a description of PLEXUS, an expert system on gardening designed as a referral tool for public libraries by the University of London. Highlights include determining user characteristics, developing the problem statement, the use of semantic categories, and search strategies that modify the original problem statement using Boolean…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Expert Systems, Foreign Countries, Gardening
Peer reviewedVickery, Alina; And Others – Journal of Documentation, 1987
Describes PLEXUS, an expert system for information retrieval related to gardening, designed at the University of London for use in public libraries. Focusing on the semantic problems encountered, methods used in artificial intelligence and information science to resolve them are discussed, including classification and facet analysis. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Classification, Databases, Developed Nations
Lakey, Kathleen – Australian Special Libraries, 1994
A survey of 92 corporate and government libraries in Victoria, Australia, reveals that 64.8% were restructured over the last 5 years. Reasons for outsourcing; services being outsourced; the impact of budgets; and the use of service fees are examined. (AEF)
Descriptors: Budgets, Corporate Libraries, Facility Inventory, Fees
