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Peer reviewedDennis, Stefanie; Broughton, Kelly – RSR: Reference Services Review, 2000
The Bowling Green State University Web tutorial, FALCON, models a standard library instructional session on use of the library's Web-based catalog. The tutorial's self-containment, achieved with a complex system of files and without a live catalog connection, enables users to learn how to search the catalog at a pace, time and place of their…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer System Design, Higher Education, Information Seeking
Download full textFrost, 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
Peer reviewedTiefel, Virginia – Library Hi Tech, 1993
Describes a microcomputer program that serves as a front-end to an online library catalog and other information sources and provides guidance to students on searching for and evaluating information. Funding, technology, evaluation, impact on other libraries, and future plans are discussed. Sample screens are included. (Contains 75 references.)…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation, Consultants
Prince George's County Public Schools, Upper Marlboro, MD. – 1987
Developed so that teachers may become more aware of the areas of teaching and provision of resources that are a part of the Prince George's County Public Schools school library media program, this chart indicates broad areas where the library media specialist, using specialized knowledge and a collection of multimedia materials, may teach skills…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Behavioral Objectives, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Chen, Shu-Hsien – School Library Media Quarterly, 1993
Reports on a study of the information searching behavior of 35 high school students. Problems that the students had searching an online catalog are identified, and implications for instruction are considered. (EAM)
Descriptors: Error Patterns, High School Students, High Schools, Information Seeking
Neuman, Delia, Ed.; And Others – School Library Media Quarterly, 1996
Outlines the cognitive theories influencing the Science Library Catalog's (SLC) design; describes the catalog itself; explains research based on the SLC; and discusses research results, emphasizing findings that are most relevant to school library media specialists developing children's information skills. An annotated bibliography of 14 related…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Behavior Theories, Children, Cognitive Processes
