Book jacket as access mechanism: An attribute rich resource for functional access to academic books

Authors

  • Brian C. O'Connor
  • Mary K. O'Connor

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v3i9.616

Abstract

Book jackets provide a model for access to documents on the World Wide Web. They demonstrate a means for making available many of the representational attributes important to making relevance judgments. Such attributes have been posited for retrieval models for some time, but have not been implemented in most formal access systems. Even in the Web environment physical availability is not the same as accessibility. The attribute categories discussed here emerged from 228 book jackets for non-fiction works in a medium size academic library. Models of document searching and book jacket design are discussed in relation to the individual scholarly searcher and new modes of document searching.

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Published

1998-09-07

How to Cite

O’Connor, B. C., & O’Connor, M. K. (1998). Book jacket as access mechanism: An attribute rich resource for functional access to academic books. First Monday, 3(9). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v3i9.616