Subject Access Problems of Different Types of OPAC Users Or, the Double Challenge.

Cochrane, Pauline A.

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Subject Access Problems of Different Types of OPAC Users Or, the Double Challenge.

Cochrane, Pauline A.

Technicalities, v9 n10 p7-9 Oct 1989

Reviews the problems of users of online public access catalogs and argues that it is necessary to think of all searching problems as systems problems rather than user failures, and to concentrate research in the area of systems enhancements. A list of improved tools needed for subject searching in online catalogs is identified. (CLB)

Descriptors: Online Catalogs, Online Searching, Research Needs, Search Strategies, Subject Index Terms, Systems Development, Thesauri, User Needs (Information), User Satisfaction (Information)

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