A History of Information Storage and Retrieval

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Summary: Misplaced title
Review: In computer science as well as in library and information science there is a field devoted to information storage and retrieval. It has even got its own journals, e.g. "Information retrieval". Another journal, "Information Processing & Management" was formerly titled "Information Storage and Retrieval".
This research area has an experimental tradition going back to the 1950'ties including the famous Cranfield experiments, and is today continued in the TREC experiments.
This book mentions absolutely NOTHING of all this research. It is mainly concentrating on the history of encyclopedias. The author or publisher may have chosen this misguiding title because they have already earlier published a book about encyclopedias.

Rating:
Summary: Misplaced title
Review: In computer science as well as in library and information science there is a field devoted to information storage and retrieval. It has even got its own journals, e.g. "Information retrieval". Another journal, "Information Processing & Management" was formerly titled "Information Storage and Retrieval".
This research area has an experimental tradition going back to the 1950'ties including the famous Cranfield experiments, and is today continued in the TREC experiments.
This book mentions absolutely NOTHING of all this research. It is mainly concentrating on the history of encyclopedias. The author or publisher may have chosen this misguiding title because they have already earlier published a book about encyclopedias.

Rating:
Summary: Interesting title, interesting content
Review: The book provided interesting information about the history of encyclopedia. However, the title of the book is "A history of information storage and retrieval", not the history of encyclopedia. The author seems to have assumed the encyclopedias as the only way of storing information.
I did learn some interesting things from the book; yet, not much about what I was aiming to look for "information storage" and "information retrieval".

Rating:
Summary: Interesting title, interesting content
Review: The book provided interesting information about the history of encyclopedia. However, the title of the book is "A history of information storage and retrieval", not the history of encyclopedia. The author seems to have assumed the encyclopedias as the only way of storing information.
I did learn some interesting things from the book; yet, not much about what I was aiming to look for "information storage" and "information retrieval".