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Markey, Karen; Demeyer, Anh N. – 1986
In this research project, subject terms from the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Schedules and Relative Index were incorporated into an online catalog as searcher's tools for subject access, browsing, and display. Four features of the DDC were employed to help searchers browse for and match their own subject terms with the online catalog's…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classification, Databases, Dewey Decimal Classification
Comparison of Retrieval System Interfaces Using an Objective Measure of Screen Design Effectiveness.
Peer reviewedDavis, Charles H.; Shaw, Debora – Library and Information Science Research, 1989
Describes a study that compared the effectiveness of screen designs for system interfaces by tallying keyboarding errors during online searches. The methodology is described as an unobtrusive means for obtaining objective and empirically based data for interface comparisons. A questionnaire used to determine users' reactions to screen designs is…
Descriptors: Display Systems, Error Patterns, Information Retrieval, Man Machine Systems
Peer reviewedMatthews, Joseph R.; Lawrence, Gary S. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1984
Reports on the Online Catalog Public Access Project, a survey of users and nonusers in 31 U.S. libraries conducted for the Council on Library Resources. Characteristics of users, tasks, library setting, and system interface that affect user satisfaction are identified. A 25-item bibliography and user questionnaire are appended. (7 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Display Systems, Information Retrieval, Library Catalogs
Peer reviewedPisciotta, Henry; And Others – Library Hi Tech, 1984
Search Helper, a microcomputer software package marketed by Information Access Company to serve as a gateway to several of their databases, was selected as a system for introducing the Carnegie-Mellon University community to do-it-yourself database searching. Preliminary results of user survey indicate service to be extremely popular with library…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Software, Display Systems, Higher Education
Lunin, Lois F.; And Others – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1992
The three articles in this special section on document image files discuss intelligent character recognition, including comparison with optical character recognition; selection of displays for document image processing, focusing on paperlike displays; and imaging hardware, software, and vendors, including guidelines for system selection. (MES)
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Check Lists, Comparative Analysis, Computer Peripherals
