Tomorrow's LIS professionals will have to be conversant with all the tools and techniques for organizing information in different domains - from the traditional library shelf to full-scale digital libraries. This core text covers the organization of the entire spectrum of information, and the principles, tools and techniques needed to do this effectively.
An Information retrieval (IR) system is designed to analyze, process and store sources of information and retrieve those that match a particular user's requirements. a bewildering range of techniques is now available to the information professional attempting to successfully retrieve information.