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A Study of User Success with an Online Catalog. Final Report.
Kranich, Nancy C.; And Others – 1984
With grants from the Council on Library Resources (CLR) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), New York University (NYU) Libraries conducted a study to assess user reactions to their online catalog, Bobcat (Bobst Library Computerized Catalog). In order to evaluate the effectiveness of NYU's catalog, to describe users' attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Automation, Library Catalogs
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
Detailed Data Analysis of the CLR Online Catalog Project. A Final Report.
Lawrence, Gary S.; Matthews, Joseph R. – 1984
In 1981 and 1982, a group of 5 organizations conducted a coordinated study of public online catalog users and nonusers in 31 research, academic, community college, public, and governmental libraries with 17 different online catalogs. It was found that: (1) the most important user characteristic linked with success and satisfaction in using online…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Library Automation
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
A Comparison of Costs of Searching the Machine-Readable Data Bases ERIC and "Psychological Abstracts" in an Annual Subscription Rate System Against Costs Estimated for the Same Searches Done in the Lockheed DIALOG System and the System Development Corporation for ERIC, and the Lockheed DIALOG System and PASAT for "Psychological Abstracts."
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Palmer, Crescentia – 1976
A comparison of costs for computer-based searching of Psychological Abstracts and Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) systems by the New York State Library at Albany was produced by combining data available from search request forms and from bills from the contract subscription service, the State University of New…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computers, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Analysis of ERIC Computer Search Requests Processed by the Educational Programs and Studies Information Service (EPSIS) Unit during the Period of September 1975 through April 1976.
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Wilkes, Whitney – 1976
The Educational Programs and Studies Information Service (EPSIS) processed and analyzed 1888 Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) computer searches requested by New York State educators. New York State agencies and the Albany capital district used the computer search most heavily. Local educational agency personnel formed the largest…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computers, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning