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Lorenz, Patricia – 1980
This paper reports an industrial information specialist's experience in performing online searches for engineers and surveys the databases used. Engineers seeking assistance fall into three categories: (1) those who recognize the value of online retrieval; (2) referrals by colleagues; and (3) those who do not seek help. As more successful searches…
Descriptors: Databases, Engineering, Information Needs, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedAltheide, David L. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1990
Discusses the relevance of communication, meaning, and identity in putting information work into a cultural context. The process of information seeking is discussed, the mediation of communication formats and devices in determining meaning is described, and implications for information specialists are suggested. (11 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Context, Databases, Information Needs
Peer reviewedBrand, Alice A. – Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 1979
Outlines use of multiple database searching in the behavioral sciences, focusing on the first two steps of the search strategy process--analyzing the information problem and selecting databases. User needs (comprehensiveness, currentness and type of relevant material) and searcher resources (efficiency) are analyzed. A table outlining resources…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Databases, Indexes, Information Needs
Berger, Mary C. – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1981
Suggests that information service professionals can make a valuable contribution in the changing information environment by providing access to services, identifying and developing needed services, evaluating services' effectiveness against user needs, and teaching all types of users how to access and use available information services and…
Descriptors: Computers, Databases, Futures (of Society), Information Centers
Dominick, Wayne D.; Weathers, Peggy G. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1982
This overview of potential for utilizing database management systems (DBMS) within numeric database environments highlights: (1) major features, functions, and characteristics of DBMS; (2) applicability to numeric database environment needs and user needs; (3) current applications of DBMS technology; and (4) research-oriented and…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Science
Download full textSmith, Teresa S. – 1996
The Internet is a network of networks which continually accumulates and amasses information, much of which is without organization and evaluation. This study addresses the need for establishing a database of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and for collecting, organizing, indexing, and publishing catalogs of URLs. Librarians and information…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Databases, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
