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Irgens, Berit – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 2000
Reports on an empirical study of how end-users utilize an online bibliographic information system available on the World Wide Web by analyzing the use of a union catalog of academic libraries in Norway. Discusses how hypertext links affect search behavior and considers individual differences in search behavior and problem solving. Interview…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Hypermedia
Balaraman, Kamala – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Describes preliminary results of a study that examined the effect of individual differences on the use of CD-ROM databases by novice undergraduate users. Factors considered include age, sex, native language, major, computer literacy, computer affinity, personality traits, learning style, visual ability, and perceived usefulness of the system. A…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Correlation, Databases, Higher Education
