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Kern-Simirenko, Cheryl – Library Hi Tech, 1983
Discusses characteristics of typical online public access catalogs (OPACs) and examines patron use via printouts of transaction logs for three separate systems. Desirable features of OPACs (mnemonic search commands, boolean operators, forgiveness or automatic truncation, browsing a subject heading index, suggestive prompts) and need for…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Library Catalogs, Library Instruction, Online Systems
Craver, Kathleen W. – 1984
This paper describes how four classes of high school students were introduced over a 2-year period to the concepts and terminology of online bibliographic searching, instructed to formulate their own search strategies, and received the opportunity to observe their strategies executed by a skilled searcher on various selected databases. It also…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Information Retrieval, Introductory Courses, Library Instruction
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Kohl, David F.; Wilson, Lizabeth A. – RQ, 1986
Term paper bibliographies were independently examined and rated by a librarian and a writing instructor. Students receiving bibliographic instruction in classes that taught a cognitive strategy for using library resources did a better job of accessing and using library resources than those whose instruction emphasized specific tools and resources.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
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Stoan, Stephen K. – College and Research Libraries, 1984
This examination of misunderstandings between librarians and teaching faculty over concepts of library use and research concludes that library skills and research skills are essentially different things that can be learned in isolation from each other. Implications of these findings for bibliographic instruction and library policies are discussed.…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Sources, Library Instruction
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Hanson, Elizabeth; Serebnick, Judith – College and Research Libraries, 1986
Presents a methodology for describing, analyzing, and evaluating the public service functions of serial file systems, and describes a user study conducted in a university departmental library to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of its system in enabling students new to the library to locate known-items in the serials collection. (CDD)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Penhale, Sara J.; Taylor, Nancy – RQ, 1986
Describes results of several studies which led to integration of end-user searching using BRS/After Dark in the bibliographic instruction program at Earlham College (Indiana). These studies compared results and patterns of online searches by students and librarians, as well as online and manual searches by students. Student opinions were also…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education