Filing, Filtering, and the First Few Found.

Buckland, Michael K.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ471112

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1993

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Filing, Filtering, and the First Few Found.

Buckland, Michael K.; And Others

Information Technology and Libraries, v12 n3 p311-19 Sep 1993

Discusses the traditional alphabetical arrangement of library card catalogs and suggests this order should be reconsidered in online catalogs. Online searching in library catalogs is described; the ordering of records in online catalogs is examined; and filtering is considered as a method to order retrieved sets of bibliographic records. (Contains 15 references.) (LRW)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Records, Filing, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Library Catalogs, Online Catalogs, Online Searching, Search Strategies

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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