Improving Access to Information on the World Wide Web

Improving Access to Information on the World Wide Web contains the text of lectures delivered by Professor Carolyn Watters (Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University) at the 26th Sarada Ranganathan Endowment Lectures in Bangalore during March 2006. These lectures discuss three research issues related to improving the effectiveness of the Web for information search and retrieval. The first issue relates to understanding how information seeking behavior has been affected by…