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| Popp, Rich | 1 |
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Peer reviewedVan Orden, Richard – Library Hi Tech, 1990
Reviews selected research on content-enriched access (including information components such as tables of contents and indexes) in information retrieval systems. It is concluded that well-selected content components and full-text materials in electronic systems must be linked with improved search methodologies, better interfaces, and greater…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedKlein, Gary M. – Library Hi Tech, 1994
Online public access catalogs from 67 libraries using NOTIS software were searched using Internet connections to determine the positional operators selected as the default keyword operator on each catalog. Results indicate the lack of a processing standard for keyword searches. Five tables provide information. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedDrabenstott, Karen M.; Weller, Marjorie S. – Library Hi Tech, 1994
Describes a project that demonstrates subject searching in an experimental online catalog based on academic library databases that were enhanced with search trees; compares the retrieval effectiveness of search trees with random subject searching approaches; evaluates system and retrieval effectiveness; and discusses proposed research. (Contains…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Records, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedMorrison, Heather G. – Library Hi Tech, 1999
The feasibility of using the verbal protocol method as a means of conducting field research on the online catalog is examined. As 10 undergraduate students conducted research they talked aloud about what was happening. Potential usefulness of the method in online catalog research is assessed, as a development tool and as a tool to assist reference…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discussion, Foreign Countries, Group Discussion
Peer reviewedJuergens, Bonnie; Blake, Ruth – Library Hi Tech, 1987
Compares and contrasts two systems designed for library automation applications--NOTIS, which was developed in the United States, and DOBIS, which was developed in Europe. The differences in the systems are discussed in terms of the availability or absence of machine readable bibliographic sharing capacities in the countries of origin. (CLB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software
Peer reviewedMicco, Mary; Popp, Rich – Library Hi Tech, 1994
Discussion of precision in information retrieval highlights a prototype online catalog, ILSA (Improving Library Subject Access), developed at Indiana University of Pennsylvania that uses subject clusters and classification. Topics addressed include problems with keyword searching, controlled vocabulary, and thesauri; natural language mapping…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Classification, College Libraries, Dewey Decimal Classification
