Keywords In and Out of Context

some more thoughts and theories about keywords


Tefko Saracevic

I am saddened to hear of the recent death of Tefko Saracevic, one of the giants in information retrieval and relevance. A distinguished professor emeritus at Rutgers, his was a name known throughout the international LIS community. Although I frequently cited his work on relevance (as did almost all researchers in the area), I only had the opportunity to meet him once (in a frankly disastrous group interview with Rutgers iSchool faculty when I was on the job market) but it was certainly a highlight of that period for me so I was delighted later when one of my articles appeared as a reading in the syllabus for his Digital Libraries class.

Zbögom, Professor Saracevic!



About THIS SITE

This site is intended to provide additional information related to my book Keywords In and Out of Context, published in Springer’s Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services series.

I am Betsy Van der Veer Martens, professor emerita at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Library & Information Studies, and my most recent article, “Libraries as Immortalities: Cultural Constructions and Collections,” will appear in Information & Culture in 2027.