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Fig. 3—Flouchart of system operation of LRL—L program.
cover the critical relations involved in predicting the course of the
various radioactive isotopes of iodine from source to human burden,
information-retrieval System
Information systems are a problem for thescientist and not just
for the librarian. Information systems should be manned by scientists
who are actively working on the various problems with which the sys-
tem is concerned. Unless this is so, the system will mostlikely not be
properly problem oriented. More important is the consideration that
reading and abstracting the literature is a valuable training aid and
that this training is lost unless it is applied to the problems of science.
In other words, information retrieval is no end unto itself; it must be
intimately tied to ongoing theoretical and experimental programs.
Knowledge gained should be knowledge used; we need sources of knowlledge, not information cesspools.
The human brain is the world’s finest information storage and
retrieval system, and also it is able to analyze and integrate informa-
tion. It is a complete information system. Thusa person who is reading
and coding the literature for a machine system is simultaneously
storing this information in his own brain; he is absorbing and learning.