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Intelligent Technologies in Library and Information Service Applications, F. W. Lancaster and Amy Warner. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc. for the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), 2001. 214 p. ASIST Members $31.60, Non-Members $39.50 (ISBN 1-57387-103-6)
These two esteemed authors have teamed up again for another outstanding book. Lancaster (Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois) and Warner's (Thesaurus Design Specialist at Argus Associates, Inc.) earlier collaboration, Information Retrieval Today (Information Resource Press, 1993), is still a leading work on electronic storage and retrieval systems. Their latest book provides cutting-edge information on the status of intelligent technologies affecting libraries and related areas. The authors immediately share their working view of artificial intelligence (AI), citing Charles Fenly's 1992 definition as computer programs that "have been developed which exhibit human-like reasoning, which may be able to learn from their mistakes, and which quickly and cleverly perform...