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How Do Patrons Search the Online Catalog When No One's Looking? Transaction Log Analysis and Implications for Bibliographic Instruction and Systems Design.

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Wallace, Patricia M. – RQ, 1993

Describes a study that electronically monitored 11 public access terminals at the University of Colorado libraries to produce transaction logs that were used to gather statistics and analyze users' behavior when searching online catalogs. Implications for search instruction and systems design are suggested. (Contains 13 references.) (LRW)

Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer System Design, Higher Education, Library Catalogs

Controlled and Uncontrolled Vocabulary Subject Searching in an Academic Library Online Catalog.

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Peters, Thomas A.; Kurth, Martin – Information Technology and Libraries, 1991

Describes an analysis of transaction logs of the online catalog at the University of Missouri-Kansas City that examined patron use of both controlled and uncontrolled vocabulary subject access during the same search session. Hypotheses tested are discussed, and recommendations are made for library instruction and online catalog design. (six…

Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer System Design, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing

The CARL System at the University of Hawaii.

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Naj, Lindy; Chantiny, Martha – Library Software Review, 1993

Three articles discuss the second online library system at the University of Hawaii at Manoa--the CARL (Colorado Alliance for Research Libraries) System. Topics addressed include an overview of the system; development of a Windows-based CARL cataloging workstation; and incorporating digitized images in the online public access catalog. (EA)

Descriptors: Cataloging, College Libraries, Computer Software, Computer System Design