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Download full textWiberley, Stephen E., Jr.; And Others – 1989
This study sought to determine the levels of persistence in scanning postings that are typical of users of one online public information system, LCS (Library Computer System), as it was configured in Illinois in 1987. The study involved observation of users doing searches in an academic library, questioning them about what they had done, and then…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Citations (References), Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Lowry, Charles B. – 1992
This 2-year project at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) was conducted to determine the feasibility of providing online periodical indexing to the journal holdings of the UTA libraries by demonstrating an extended use of the libraries' NOTIS Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) to provide better access to local resources. Three approaches…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Indexes
Law, Darnell L. – 2000
This study compared the familiarity of text-only/Telnet and graphical/Web-based online library catalogs of 83 traditional to 17 nontraditional students who were new to Kent State University (Ohio) as of the spring semester of 2000. A questionnaire was distributed to all students prior to any formal library instruction provided by the university.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Higher Education, Library Catalogs
Peer reviewedFerl, Terry Ellen; Milsap, Larry – Information Technology and Libraries, 1996
Researchers studying subject searching distributed an online questionnaire to users who access the University of California's online public access catalog, MELVYL, from public access terminals in the libraries of the University of California at Santa Cruz. This article discusses the results of transaction log analysis, comparison of in-library and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Computers, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Compton, Lawrence E. – 1991
This study investigated the use patterns of four CD-ROM systems--Newsbank Electronic Index, SilverPlatter's ERIC and PsycLIT, and Dissertation Abstracts Ondisc--and their print index counterparts in the University of Georgia (UGA) Main Library, which houses collections and provides library services for the humanities, the social sciences, and…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Higher Education
Edmonds, Leslie; And Others – 1989
This study evaluated the use of an online catalog by 33 children in the fourth, sixth, and eighth grades. As a basis of comparison, the children's ability to use the card catalog was also evaluated. Touch screen terminals were used to access a CLSI catalog. A specific set of tests was developed to determine if children have the necessary…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Card Catalogs, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Davis, H. Scott; And Others – 1989
This article reports the findings of a study which compared three methods for teaching freshmen at Indiana State University how to use the library's online catalog. The methods were: (1) video projection, which used a large screen video projection system and an IBM-PC to present a "live" search; (2) dual television monitors, which substituted two…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedShemberg, Marian; Grossman, Cheryl – Library Hi Tech, 1999
Describes a survey dealing with academic library provision of electronic journals and other electronic resources that compared ARL (Association of Research Libraries) members to non-ARL members. Highlights include full-text electronic journals; computers in libraries; online public access catalogs; interlibrary loan and electronic reserves; access…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Archives, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedWalton, Carol; And Others – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1986
Surveys of student and faculty attitudes toward proposed online public access catalogs were conducted in 1984 at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore. The traditional card catalog was generally favored; only Swarthmore's faculty gave majority support to the online catalog. Differences between colleges may result from Swarthmore's greater experience with…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Card Catalogs, College Faculty, College Libraries
Illinois Univ., Urbana. University Library. – 1993
In 1990, the Online Catalog Advisory Committee (OCAC) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) charged a subcommittee with developing and implementing ways to measure the impact of the expanded online catalog on staff, users, collections, and library operations. The UIUC's online public access catalog, ILLINET (Illinois Library and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, College Libraries, College Students, Comparative Analysis
