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Pasanen-Tuomainen, I.: Monitoring online catalogues in the Nordic technological university libraries (1992)
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Pasanen-Tuomainen, I.: Analysis of subject searching in the TENTTU books database (1992)
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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
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Ray, K.L.; Long, M.S.: Analyzing search styles of patrons and staff : a replicative study of two university libraries (1997)
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- Librarians at the University of the Pacific, California (UOP) designed a replication of an earlier transaction log study carried out at Adelphi University, New York (LRTS 38(1994) no.3, S.293-305). It was hypothesized that library staff would use a feature that allows the searcher to limit a search by location or material type more often than users. It was also hypothesized that library staff and reference librarians would have a higher success rate than public users. The third hypothesis was that UOP users would perform keyword searches more often than library staff. Studies were conducted in 1995 in 1996 to test these hypotheses to provide comparative data on the search styles of users and staff. Searches of the INNOPAC database, using transaction logs, were performed by 4 terminal groups: public users, technical services staff, public services staff, and reference librarians. It was discovered that replicating a study is not nearly as straightforward as was initially thought. It was also found to be surprisingly difficult to compare year to year data at the same institution; primarily due to a continually changing technological environment
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Green, A.-M.; Higgins, M.: "Making out" with new media : young people and new information and communication technology (1997)
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- Reports on a survey of teenagers at a school in Edinburgh, Scotland, conducted as part of the Household Information System (HIS) project at Queen Margaret College. HIS has attempted to apply organizational models of information management to non organizational contexts such as households. Information management concepts have also been complemented by reference to research from sociology and media and cultural studies into the domestic consumption of technologies. Previous HIS research has suggested that notions of technological convergence proposed by producers and suppliers of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are not shared by consumers who prefer to keep their television and computing devioces separate. Television is most often associated with relaxation and entertainment, computing with work and education. However, there is some evidence that expertise with regard to new ICTs is the province of children rather than adults in many homes, a trend which may indicate as inversion of traditional patterns of knowledge dispersal in adult child relationships
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Lau, E.P.; Goh, H.-L.: In search of query patterns : a case study of a university OPAC (2006)
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- Abstract
- A transaction log analysis of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) OPAC was conducted to identify query and search failure patterns with the goal of identifying areas of improvement for the system. One semester's worth of OPAC transaction logs were obtained and from these, 641,991 queries were extracted and used for this work. Issues investigated included query length, frequency and type of search options and Boolean operators used as well as their relationships with search failure. Among other findings, results indicate that a majority of the queries were simple, with short query lengths and a low usage of Boolean operators. Failure analysis revealed that on average, users had an almost equal chance of obtaining no records or at least one record to a submitted query. We propose enhancements and suggest future areas of work to improve the users' search experience with the NTU OPAC.
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Mehra, B.; Bishop, A.P.; Bazzell, I.; Smith, C.: Scenarios in the Afya project as a participatory action research (PAR) tool for studying information seeking and use across the 'digital divide' (2002)
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- This article explores the role of scenarios (or use-oriented design representations) in the Afya project as a participatory action research (PAR) tool for studying information seeking and use across the "digital divide." With the aim of improving access to health information and services for Black women, the Afya project has involved forging community-level partnerships with SisterNet, a local grassroots group of Black women devoted to improving their physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual health. In the context of community health care, scenarios in the Afya project as a socially grounded planning and design methodology have taken the form of personal narratives of Black women that capture their social experiences and typical problematic health situations. Scenarios of Black women point towards the need to foster social justice by nurturing equitable and participative social activities around technological development and use associated with health information services. Scenarios also suggest specific action-oriented strategies for empowering Black women to build social and digital technologies that we hope will make the provision of health care in our community more just.
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Herman, E.: End-users in academia : meeting the information needs of university researchers in an electronic age: Part 2 Innovative information-accessing opportunities and the researcher: user acceptance of IT-based information resources in academia (2001)
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- This paper is the second part of a two-part paper, which examines the transition to the electronic information era in academia. Seeks to establish from the published literature to what extent university researchers have accepted, and adapted to, the changes wrought in information activity by seemingly endless technological developments. Within the wider context of the impact of the changing information environment on each of the three clearly discernible components of academic research (the creation of knowledge and standards, the preservation of information, and the communication of knowledge and information to others), disciplinary-rooted differences in the conduct of research and their influence on information needs are identified, and the resulting inter- and intra-individual variations in researchers' information seeking behaviour are explored. Reviewing a large number of studies investigating the integration of electronic media into academic work, an attempt is made to paint the picture of academics' progressively harnessing the new technologies to scholarly information gathering endeavours, with the expressed hope of affording some insight into the directions and basic trends characterising the information activity of university faculty in an increasingly electronic environment.
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Herman, E.: End-users in academia : meeting the information needs of university researchers in an electronic age (2001)
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- This paper is the first part of a two-part paper, which examines the transition to the electronic information era in academia. Seeks to establish from the published literature to what extent university researchers have accepted, and adapted to, the changes wrought in information activity by seemingly endless technological developments. Within the wider context of the impact of the changing information environment on each of the three clearly discernible components of academic research (the creation of knowledge and standards, the preservation of information, and the communication of knowledge and information to others), disciplinary-rooted differences in the conduct of research and their influence on information needs are identified, and the resulting inter- and intra- individual variations in researchers' information seeking behaviour are explored. Reviewing a large number of studies investigating the integration of electronic media into academic work, an attempt is made to paint the picture of academics' progressively harnessing the new technologies to scholarly information gathering endeavours, with the expressed hope of affording some insight into the directions and basic trends characterizing the information activity of university faculty in an increasingly electronic environment.
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Scholle, U.: Kann ich Ihnen behilflich sein? : Erhebung am zentralen Auskunftsplatz der ULB Münster (2000)
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- 22. 1.2000 17:52:11
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Branch, J.L.: Investigating the information-seeking process of adolescents : the value of using think alouds and think afters (2000)
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- Library and information science research. 22(2000) no.4, S.371-382
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Yoo, E.-Y.; Robbins, L.S.: Understanding middle-aged women's health information seeking on the web : a theoretical approach (2008)
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- 9. 2.2008 17:52:22
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Wallace, P.M.: Periodical title searching in online catalogues (1997)
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- 29. 7.1998 10:57:22
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Tomney, H.; Burton, P.F.: Electronic journals : a case study of usage and attitudes among academics (1998)
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Gremett, P.: Utilizing a user's context to improve search results (2006)
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Schneider, R.: OPACs, Benutzer und das Web (2009)
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Kaske, N.K.: ¬A comparative study of subject searching in an OPAC among branch libraries of a university library system (1988)
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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.
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Witt, M.: Survey on the use of the catalogue at the Mediatheque of the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (CSI) (1993)
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- International cataloguing and bibliographic control. 22(1993) no.4, S.68-71
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Meadow, C.T.: Speculations on the measurement and use of user characteristics in information retrieval experimentation (1994)
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Berger, F.C.; Hofstede, A.H.M. ter; Van der Weide, T.P.: Supporting query by navigation (1996)
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Stokmans, M.; Oomens, A.: Meer grasduinen door genreplaatsing? : genre- of alfabetische plaatsing: onderzoek naar verschillen in gebruikersgedrag (1997)
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