Online Access Will Reduce Author/Title Catalog Search Failure.

Kilgour, Frederick G.

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ERIC Number: EJ447453

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Publication Date: 1991

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Online Access Will Reduce Author/Title Catalog Search Failure.

Kilgour, Frederick G.

Online Review, v15 n5 p307-14 Oct 1991

Discusses library use studies that examined library catalog search failures and demonstrates types of online catalog access that can reduce the failures caused by card catalog flaws or by user search errors by half. The use of single keyword, implied Boolean, or derived truncated key retrieval is suggested. (14 references) (LRW)

Descriptors: Correlation, Information Retrieval, Library Catalogs, Library Research, Literature Reviews, Online Catalogs, Problems, Search Strategies, Tables (Data), Use Studies, Users (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - General; Information Analyses; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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