Online retrieval history; how it all began: some personal recollections
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to discuss the history of online searching through the views of one of its pioneers.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper presents, and comments on, the recollections of Jim Hall, one of the earliest UK‐based operators of, and writers on, online retrieval systems.
Findings
The paper gives an account of the development of online searching in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.
Originality/value
The paper presents the perspective of one of the pioneers of online searching.
Keywords
Citation
Hall, J.L. (2011), "Online retrieval history; how it all began: some personal recollections", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 67 No. 1, pp. 182-193. https://doi.org/10.1108/00220411111105506
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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