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A ‘closed stack’ library facilitates information transfer from collection to information seeker through some intermediary who controls …

Information foraging as a metaphor for exploring information retrieval and seeking. Heavily tied to search systems. A ‘closed stack’ library facilitates information transfer from collection to information seeker through some intermediary who controls access to said objects. ‘Open stack’ libraries often allow direct access to information objects (although sometimes with an intermediary’s help). Both may utilize some ordering/index. The goal of information seekers is to find information that are useful in answering the original query or research questions System Relevance is the measure or degre

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