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Hert, Carol A. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
Describes an inductive, qualitative study of 30 Syracuse University students that investigated the situated nature of action during interactions with an online public access catalog. Highlights include elements of situatedness, with examples; the mapping of individual searches; and users' goals and stopping behavior. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Information Retrieval, Interviews
Hert, Carol A. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1992
Presents preliminary findings of a study that developed descriptions of the behaviors and underlying cognitive processes observed during information retrieval interactions. Data from talk-aloud protocols and postsearch interviews from users of online public access catalogs in academic libraries are examined. (20 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Induction
