Search Helper: Sancho Panza or Mephistopheles?.

Pisciotta, Henry; And Others

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Publication Date: 1984

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Search Helper: Sancho Panza or Mephistopheles?

Pisciotta, Henry; And Others

Library Hi Tech, v2 n3 p25-32 1984

Search Helper, a microcomputer software package marketed by Information Access Company to serve as a gateway to several of their databases, was selected as a system for introducing the Carnegie-Mellon University community to do-it-yourself database searching. Preliminary results of user survey indicate service to be extremely popular with library users. (EJS)

Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Software, Display Systems, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Library Services, Library Surveys, Man Machine Systems, Microcomputers, Online Searching, Questionnaires, Reference Services, Search Strategies, User Satisfaction (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires

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