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ERIC: Online, Offline & Without Line. A Summary and a Report on the Staff Interaction Seminar [at the Institute of Education Library] (Singapore, January 18, 1986).

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Ho, Soo Miang – 1986

This presentation at a seminar for library staff and students describes the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system as an information system designed to provide users with ready access to primarily English-language literature dealing with education by establishing a database, publishing abstracting journals, and reproducing…

Descriptors: Databases, Indexes, Information Systems, Online Searching

End-User Searching in a Large Library Network: A Case Study of Patent Attorneys.

Vollaro, Alice J.; Hawkins, Donald T. – Online, 1986

Reports results of study of a group of end users (patent attorneys) doing their own online searching at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Highlights include DIALOG databases used by the attorneys, locations and searching modes, characteristics of patent attorney searchers, and problem areas. Questionnaire is appended. (5 references) (EJS)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Databases, Information Services, Information Systems

Dewey Decimal Classification Online Project: Evaluation of a Library Schedule and Index Integrated into the Subject Searching Capabilities of an Online Catalog. Final Report.

Markey, Karen; Demeyer, Anh N. – 1986

In this research project, subject terms from the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Schedules and Relative Index were incorporated into an online catalog as searcher's tools for subject access, browsing, and display. Four features of the DDC were employed to help searchers browse for and match their own subject terms with the online catalog's…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classification, Databases, Dewey Decimal Classification