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Peer reviewedLarson, Ray R. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1991
Describes a study that used transaction log analysis to investigate the use of subject searching in the University of California's Online Union Catalog, MELVYL. Mathematical models of trends and patterns in the data are presented, problems with subject searching are explained, and remedies to subject searching problems are suggested. (62…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Analysis, Higher Education, Library Catalogs
