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Search Intermediary Elicitations during Mediated Online Searching.

Spink, Amanda; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995

Describes a study that investigated search intermediaries' requests for information from patrons during mediated online searching in an academic library. Topics of search intermediaries' elicitations include search terms and strategies, database selection, relevance of retrieved items, patrons' knowledge and previous information seeking, and other…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Higher Education, Information Seeking

What Is Used during Cognitive Processing in Information Retrieval and Library Searching? Eleven Sources of Search Information.

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Michel, Dee Andy – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994

Presents a taxonomy of 11 sources of information used during library and database searching based on observations of 49 searches in a variety of libraries and search situations. Three categories of sources are identified: those internal to the searcher, those created by the searcher, and those external to the searcher. (Contains 54 references.)…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Databases