Introduction to Information Retrieval Tools of Users of Pharmacy Colleges Special Reference to Rajasthan

Abstract

Libraries have been considered as a first environment for longer tradition of organizing information for the purpose of retrieval and for posterity. Information organization is a prerequisite for retrieval. Finding or retrieving anything that isn't organized can be challenging or impossible. As a result, we have a variety of tools that are structured to help us find the information we need: books, directories, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, bibliographies, indexes, catalogues, museum registers, archival findings aids, and databases, among others. Recorded information, however, in itself is of no use unless it is stored in such a way that is can be retrieved easily and made readily available for use it. Hence, The act of choosing information from a storage is known as information retrieval. The design of information-retrieval systems based on these physical devices has developed into a significant area of applied information technology as the process becomes more and more dependent on physical processes, particularly on information transmission and technology