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The Effect of Arrangement on The Successful Use of Library Catalogs
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By any other name: a study of library user comprehension of subject headings
<p>The current research examined library users and their use of subject headings in library catalog searches. It also examined how effective library catalog searches were for users. A survey was designed to give the researcher an idea of what search terms the public used to search library catalogs. …
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LibX 2.0
… browsers are emerging as the platform of choice. Library catalogs, or OPACs, have become widely digitized as part of this trend. Unlike modern search engines, however, many OPACs require antiquated, boolean-based search queries. Consequently, OPAC usage has declined. Libraries have recently begun …
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Are Online Catalogs for Children Giving Them What They Need? Children's Cognitive Development and Information Seeking and Their Impact on Design
… (ages 5 to 8) in searching 3 online public library catalogs designed for them, and it focused specifically on the pictorial representations and text descriptors used in the systems' browsing hierarchy. The research sought answer whether young children (ages 5 to 8) are really poor searchers …
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A collection of books from the Brownings' personal libraries.
… of Baylor University's Armstrong Browning Library. If books with two or more volumes are counted as one book, the total number of books in the collection is 188. The purpose of the thesis is to record pertinent information contained in the books, like signatures, presentation inscriptions, …
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A survey of the availability of school library media center catalogs on the web
<p>An important tool of a school library media center is the automation system. The media specialist uses this tool to manage the media center's collection and ensure that students have access to the best and most up to date accurate information. The purpose of having an automation system was to …
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User-generated tagging and the public library online public access catalog
… including user-generated tagging in the public library online public access catalog (OPAC). The research questions of the thesis concerned the advantages and disadvantages of user-generated tagging, the co-existence of user-generated tagging and controlled subject headings, the future of …
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Next generation catalogues: an analysis of user search strategies and behavior
… alternative, especially when searching for local library or print collections. Participants understand an online catalogue as a list of library holdings that provides access to local print collections; and offers options for refining voluminous result sets. Participants frequently used author, …