LIS 677 - Blacklist

• Cleveland, D.B. and Cleveland, A.D. 2001. Introduction to indexing and abstracting, 3rd ed.
  • Page 46. "Multiword terms should be entered in their natural word order with see cross-references to the inverted forms": for "see", read "use for".
• Dialog. 1991. Dialog lab workbook.
  • Page 3-7. Incorrectly states that the number of records retrieved (without regard to relevance) is a measure of recall. (Contributed by B. Frohmann.)
• Foskett, A.C. 1996. The subject approach to information, 5th ed.
  • Page 15. Recall is incorrectly identified as "the number of items we find in conducting a series of searches", though the correct definition of "recall ratio" follows on page 16.
• Keenan, S. 1996. Concise dictionary of library and information science.
  • Pages 44 and 45. Precision and recall are inexplicably and erroneously stated to be the same thing. (Contributed by J. Savage.)

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