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Broadbent, E.: ¬A study of the use of the subject catalog, Marriott Library, University of Utah (1984) 0.02

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Source: Cataloging and classification quarterly. 4(1984) no.3, S.75-83

Dickson, J.: ¬An analysis of user errors in searching an online catalog (1984) 0.01

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Source: Cataloging and classification quarterly. 4(1984) no.3, S.19-38

Micco, M.: ¬The next generation of online public access catalogs : a new look at subject access using hypermedia (1991) 0.01

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Abstract: Current online catalogs have problems providing reasonable subject access, often resulting in searches with too few or too many hits. These problems can be improved by enhancing MARC records, building semantic networks through cross-references, and linking subject headings to classification numbers. This paper describes a pilot project to design a hypertext search engine using these principles
Source: Cataloging and classification quarterly. 13(1991) nos.3/4, S.103-132

Sinnott, E.: Fewer errors resulting from the users' misconception of the OPAC in 1992 than a decade ago : a comparative study of no direct hits and zero hits in author searches (1993) 0.01
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Abstract

Reports a comparative study of OPAC use designed to investigate whether there are fewer zero or no direct hits due to users' misconceptions today than 10 years ago. Data from PEGASUS, Columbia University Law Library's INNOPAC based OPAC on failed searches was compared with that from an earlier study (see Cataloging and classification quarterly 4(1984) no.3, S.1-17) of LUIS, Northwestern University's NOTIS based OPAC. No direct hits resulting from a misconception of the system were found to constitute only half of the no direct hits compared with the corresponding category of the earlier study

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Cataloging and classification quarterly. 18(1993) no.1, S.75-102

Wallace, P.M.: Periodical title searching in online catalogues (1997) 0.01

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Date: 29. 7.1998 10:57:22

Kaske, N.K.: ¬A comparative study of subject searching in an OPAC among branch libraries of a university library system (1988) 0.01
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Abstract

The degree of variability in the percentage of subject searching in an online public access catalog (OPAC) among branch libraries of one university was studied. A full semester's worth of transactions was analyzed, not sampled. The time units used were hour of the day, day of the week, and week of the semester. The findings show that subject searching varies from a low of 22% to a high of 74% over the hours of a day. Variability for the days of the week ranged from 17% to 64%, and for the weeks of the semester variability ranged from 12% to 70%. Valuable management information on the utilization of the OPAC within each brach library and among all the branch libraries is provided through numerous charts and graphs.

Witt, M.: Survey on the use of the catalogue at the Mediatheque of the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (CSI) (1993) 0.01

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Source: International cataloguing and bibliographic control. 22(1993) no.4, S.68-71

Moulaison, H.L.: OPAC queries at a medium-sized academic library : a transaction log analysis (2008) 0.01

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Date: 10. 9.2000 17:38:22

Wiberley, S.E.; Daugherty, R.A.: Users' persistence in scanning lists of references (1988) 0.01

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Footnote: Vgl. auch Micco, M. in: Cataloging and classification quarterly 13(1991)

Marle, G.A.J.S. v.; Skaliks, M.: Some statistics about the searching behaviour of users of the OPAC of the Twente University Library (1994) 0.01

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Abstract: Provides a background to the size, organisation, and activities of the University of Twente and its library, the only campus university in the Netherlands. Describes the development and integration of descriptors and their conversion into a thesaurus. Discusses national developments in subject cataloguing; the OPAC of Twente University Library; the changing role of the OPAC and of classification systems; international OPAC developments and evaluation of the Twente OPAC

Lundgren, J.; Simpson, B.: Cataloging needs survey for faculty at the University of Florida (1997) 0.01

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Source: Cataloging and classification quarterly. 23(1997) nos.3/4, S.47-63

Ho, J.: Faculty and graduate student search patterns and perceptions of videos in the online catalog (2001) 0.01

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Source: Cataloging and classification quarterly. 33(2001) no.2, S.69-88

Wilson, V.: Catalog users "in the wild" : the potential of an ethnographic approach to studies of library catalogs and their users (2015) 0.01

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Source: Cataloging and classification quarterly. 53(2015) no.2, S.190-213

Pasanen-Tuomainen, I.: Analysis of subject searching in the TENTTU books database (1992) 0.01
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Abstract

Presents a pilot study for an Internordic project to monitor the use of online catalogues in the Nordic technological university libraries. Focuses on the use of classification in subject searching, how the UDC is used and the extent of its use. Studies user interaction with the OPACs and improvements to information retrieval in the catalogues using the transaction log method to gather data. The pilot study examnines the TENTTU Books database which is the online union catalogue of the Helsinki Univ. of Technology Library, a multilingual database with true information retrieval. The Internordic study itself will make comparisons between the TENTTU system and the new Virginia Tech Library System. Discusses the users monitored, method of analysis, subject searching in the database, results and how the UDC codes were used. Compares this to other studies conducted in Finland and evaluates the project
Hancock, M.: Subject searching behaviour at the library catalogue and at the shelves : implications for online interactive catalogues (1987) 0.01
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Abstract

Searching behaviour in a university library is studied using a holistic approach, encompassing the use of bibliographic tools and shelf browsing. The present study is designed as the first half of a 'before and after' study to permit the evaluation of the impact of a future online catalogue on users' searching behaviour. A combined methodology was devised: searchers were encouraged to talk aloud during their search, and this information, together with some probing and real time expert interpretation, enabled the experimente to record the searching activity on a highly structured observation form. The study reveals the extent of subject searching activity, and suggests that this may have been underestimated in previous studies. The analysis of expressed topics, search formulation strategy and documents retrieved reveals the adaptive nature of the subject searching process, whereby the user adapts to the structure of the available tools. The information retrieval task in a traditional library system is tailored by the system to a single, one dimensional, sequential process. It is suggested that a major obstacle to subject searching effectiveness may lie in the lack of interaction between the different possible approaches in the searching process: the indexing language, the classification, and the titles. It is to be hoped that a future online searching environment will encourage a more truly interactive approach to subject searching.

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