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University of California Users Look at MELVYL: Results of a Survey of Users of the University of California Prototype Online Union Catalog. Part 1. Final Report.

California Univ., Berkeley. Systemwide Administration. Library Studies and Research Div. – 1983

This report addresses the objectives of a national survey of users and non-users of online catalogs (OPAC's) as they apply to MELVYL and its implementation in the University of California (UC) Libraries on nine campuses. These objectives were to collect information to enable libraries to improve implementation of support services for public access…

Descriptors: Design Requirements, Library Automation, Library Catalogs, Library Research

Testing a New Design for Subject Access to Online Catalogs.

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Drabenstott, Karen M.; Weller, Marjorie S. – 1995

Over the last decade, studies of online catalogs have revealed that they frequently discourage users. Subject queries often fail to produce retrievals or produce retrieval sets that are too large and unwieldy to be easily scanned. Research shows that users are seeking alternative approaches to those that manipulate the subject headings in catalog…

Descriptors: Access to Information, Data Analysis, Design Requirements, Indexing