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Student and Faculty Subject Searching in a University Online Public Catalog.

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Frost, Carolyn O. – 1985

This research study addressed four issues relating to subject searching in online catalogs: faculty and student use of subject searching in library catalogs; users' knowledge of and use of the Library of Congress Subject Headings List (LCSH) in a controlled subject heading search; strategies for teaching effective subject searching; and users'…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Students, Faculty, Higher Education

A Comparative Study of Major OPACs in Selected Academic Libraries for Developing Countries: User Study and Subjective User Evaluation.

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Park, Iljong – International Information & Library Review, 1997

A study of five Texas academic libraries provided information on OPAC use by Korean college students to assist system managers select OPACs. The study determined that academic level and age influence preference for the type of OPAC system, that more specific search instructions are needed, and that system menus were the most commonly used source…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Computer System Design

The Effect of Expanded Electronic Access to Periodical Literature on Library Users, Collections and Operations. Final Report of the OCAC Measurement and Evaluation Subcommittee, University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign.

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Illinois Univ., Urbana. University Library. – 1993

In 1990, the Online Catalog Advisory Committee (OCAC) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) charged a subcommittee with developing and implementing ways to measure the impact of the expanded online catalog on staff, users, collections, and library operations. The UIUC's online public access catalog, ILLINET (Illinois Library and…

Descriptors: Access to Information, College Libraries, College Students, Comparative Analysis