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Organizational Usability of Digital Libraries: Case Study of Legal Research in Civil and Criminal Courts.
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Elliott, Margaret; Kling, Rob – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
Presents a case study of the use of legal research digital libraries (LRDLs) in the California Civil and Criminal Courts. Results suggest that points of access to LRDLs influence usage, that there is a strong interplay between home computer use and LRDL use at work, and that legal professionals prefer one-on-one assistance rather than group…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Case Studies, Court Litigation, Electronic Libraries
End-User Searching Behavior in Information Retrieval: A Longitudinal Study.
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Yuan, Weijing – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
Describes a study that investigated the effects of end-user search experience on searching behavior in the use of an online information retrieval system by monitoring the QUICKLAW searches of University of Toronto law students over a one-year period. Highlights include hypothesis testing, error patterns, search speed, and attitudes. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries, Higher Education