The author discusses the way information retrieval languages need to be modified if they are to survive as tools for information arrangement and retrieval. The information retrieval environment and information retrieval languages are currently shaped and influenced by: the quantity of information searched and the appearance of new information objects; the change occurring in the behavior of information users; the pace of ongoing changes; undisputable domination of Internet. The most important conclusions involve the need for: the integration of information resources (first of all, within the World Wide Web); change in the way information retrieval vocabulary is presented (visualizations) with the possibility of transformation into, for instance, knowledge maps; the integration of metadata search and full-text search.
The author's reflections on the value of information. The context is limited to the issues relevant and important for the librarians in Poland in the first decade of the 21st century. The article concerns (among others): expected attributes and features of information, information imperative, values in human and social life, knowledge as a value, mutual relations of information and knowledge, devaluation of knowledge, and misusage of the ‘knowledge' term. Answering the title question the author states, referring to sociological and axiological contexts, that we are witnessing the crisis of the value of knowledge nowadays
The article presents reflections concerning a few transformations of the information society, as seen in terminology of modern library and information science in Poland. The authors discusses issues arising around terms: contents, document, information object, digital object, and resource.
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