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Peer reviewedAdams, Arthur L. – Online Review, 1979
Discusses methods for designing search strategies for maximum recall, including minimizing the number of concepts intersected, isolating key subtopics, adapting the strategy to the database, and minimizing problems with search words and codes. (Author/RAA)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Databases, Interviews, Online Systems
Dommer, Jan M.; McCaghy, M. Dawn – Online, 1982
Discusses interviewing techniques in two steps: determining user's knowledge of and expectations for computerized literature searching, including beginning the interview and dealing with misconceptions, and the search strategy. The figure provided illustrates four stages of a thesis proposal and the related literature search purposes as aids in…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Doctoral Dissertations, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedAdalian, Paul T., Jr.; And Others – College and Research Libraries, 1985
In-person interviews were conducted with 147 randomly selected students to study usage of microfiche serials holdings list to determine accessibility and retrievability of periodical issues housed in four separate locations in California Polytechnic State University Library. Results showed that 80.6 percent of students were successful in their…
Descriptors: College Libraries, College Students, Computer Output Microfilm, Higher Education
