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Psychosemiotics and Libraries: Identifying Signways in Library Informational Guides, Games, and Tutorials
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Laster, Barbara; Blummer, Barbara; Kenton, Jeffrey M. – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2010
Tutorials and digital learning objects provide librarians a quick, concise mechanism for delivering information and training on a wide range of library topics. The semiotic theory promoted by Charles Sanders Peirce (Wiener, 1958) and Howard Smith (2005) contains implications for enhancing the effectiveness of library tutorials through the…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Librarians
User Preferences for Features in Back of Book Indexes.
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Diodato, Virgil – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Discusses the results of a survey of 255 librarians and college professors that was conducted to determine their preferences regarding three back-of-the-book index features: word-by-word versus letter-by-letter alphabetizing; line-by-line versus run-on subheading arrangement; and see references versus duplicate entries. (Contains 25 references.)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Filing
Newspaper Indexing: Using an IBM Mainframe Computer and a Text-Formatting Program.
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Wall, Celia – Information Technology and Libraries, 1987
Describes how Murray State University Library, a medium sized academic library in Kentucky, made use of an IBM mainframe and SCRIPT, a text formatting program to index two local newspapers. The entire procedure is described, including indexing, authority lists, input techniques, editing, and production and distribution of the index. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computers, Indexes
The Utility of Spatial and Temporal Organization in Digital Library Construction.
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Hunt, Leta (Li); Ethington, Philip J. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1997
Discusses the concept of a digital library and the utility of space/time referencing. Describes the unified space/time/keyword/format search and retrieval and indexing system of the ISLA (Information System for Los Angeles) at the University of Southern California. Focuses on the practical application of space/time referencing and methods of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer System Design, Higher Education, Indexes
Indexers' Manual for the Oregon Index.
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Macnaughtan, Don, Ed.; Nixon, Mary, Ed. – 1989
This manual is designed to assist the indexers and inputters of the Oregon Index, which is an online index to Oregon's major newspapers and journals. The Index provides dial-up access to a database of citations and is available at hundreds of points around Oregon, including libraries, schools, newspapers, and government offices. The database has…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Citation Indexes, Indexing
Dissertations: A Study of the Scholar's Approach.
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Repp, Joan M.; Glaviano, Cliff – College and Research Libraries, 1987
The use of locally produced dissertations by extramural scholars was examined in four Ohio academic libraries. The results include identification of users by type of institution; purpose for which the dissertations were used; and tools and approaches successfully used in identifying and locating the desired dissertations. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cataloging, Doctoral Dissertations