英语翻译

英语翻译
The Law In Context
Mr.Mooers originally proposed his law during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the American Documentation Institute at Lehigh University in October,1959; the remarks he made there were "excerpted,with modifications" from his Information Retrieval Selection Study,Part II:Seven System Models,written earlier that same year.The law then appeared in print as a brief paper in Zator Technical Bulletin 136 in December,and as an editorial the next year in American Documentation (1960).More recently,it has been reprinted in The Scientist,both in paper format and on-line (1997).
Mooers’ Law,as he explains it,focuses on the "painful and troublesome" aspects of having information in hand and therefore feeling obligated to do something with it; in his estimation,given what he calls the "present intellectual and engineering climate" (1959b,p.1),the customer might just as well wish not to have the information,even if it is readily available.For,he notes,"If you have information,you first must read it,which is not always easy.You must then try to understand it.To do this,you may have to think about it"(1959b,p.2).
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