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Lamb, Janeen; Howard, Sarah; Easey, Michael – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
The aim of this study is to investigate if providing mathematics education pre-service teachers with animated library tutorials on library and database searches changes their searching practices. This study involved the completion of a survey by 138 students and seven individual interviews before and after library search demonstration videos were…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Library Materials, Library Services, Electronic Libraries
Kim, Yong-Mi – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In recent years, tags have become a standard feature on a diverse range of sites on the Web, accompanying blog posts, photos, videos, and online news stories. Tags are descriptive terms attached to Internet resources. Despite the rapid adoption of tagging, how people use tags during the search process is not well understood. There is little…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Internet, Video Technology, Web Sites
Kramer-Duffield, Jacob – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Context: This dissertation examines beliefs and uses regarding tagging among current undergraduate students, and examines the ecology of communications practice and implications for formation and maintenance of identity within the population. Currently enrolled undergraduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill formed the population for examination. …
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Audiences, Interviews, Social Networks
Trefethen, Dan – 1978
The results of personal interviews with 18 of the more experienced online searchers in Washington State are presented. A profile of respondents determines the experience of each in searching in years, number of searches per month, vendors used, and most used data bases. This information is used to analyze the answers given to questions about the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Databases, Information Storage, Interviews
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
Zipperer, W. C. – 1975
Two information dissemination centers at University of California at Los Angeles and University of Georgia studied the interactions between computer based search facilities and their users. The study, largely descriptive in nature, investigated the interaction processes between data base users and profile analysis or information specialists in…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Centers, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval

Drone, Jeanette M. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1984
A multifaceted card catalog use study was conducted at University of Illinois Music Library to determine hourly rate of use at sound recording and book/music catalogs; time spent at catalogs; who uses catalogs and why; difficulties users encounter; success rate of users' searches; recommendations for designing online catalog. (16 references)…
Descriptors: Card Catalogs, College Libraries, Higher Education, Information Retrieval

Carey, Kevin – RQ, 1983
Patron use of periodical indexes was studied by interviewing patrons on random basis as they used periodical and newspaper indexes. A questionnaire was designed to gather information on citation elements, how patrons locate magazines in library, and how they use university's serials holdings list. Seven references and questionnaire are appended.…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Indexes, Information Retrieval
Anderson, Rosemary; And Others – 1982
The current attitudes of users and non-users towards public online computer catalogs (OPAC's) were studied at the Library of Congress (LC) and responses were compared with those from an aggregate survey. Attitudes of both users and non-users toward the LC OPAC system were favorable. Problems experienced by patrons related to difficulty in…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Information Needs, Interviews, Library Automation
Markey, Karen – 1983
The Subject Access Research Project was initiated by OCLC in August 1979 to study the process of subject searching in the library catalog, with the objective of identifying features for an automated subject retrieval system which would support the present search tactics employed by library users performing manual subject searches at the library…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Information Retrieval, Interviews, Library Automation

Jacobs, N. A. – Journal of Documentation, 1996
Describes quantitative and qualitative research that investigated students' perceptions of the library service at the University of Sussex (England). Highlights include results of a user survey regarding the reserve collection, user interviews and the software package used to analyze them, and types of student searching. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Sewell, Winifred; Teitelbaum, Sandra – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Investigation of end-user searching at National Library of Medicine reveals that volume of searching is related to convenient placement of terminal; slightly fewer than half of potential searchers search for themselves; practices of pharmacists and pathologists do not differ in important ways; end-user searchers perform simple searches. (86…
Descriptors: Databases, Interviews, Library Surveys, Man Machine Systems
Kaske, Neal K.; Sanders, Nancy P. – 1983
This report covers the background, scope, and findings of a multifaceted research project which focused on data collection and analysis related to online public access systems (OPAC's); the ultimate goal of this project is to improve information access through OPAC design and enhancement. To assist library decision-makers when planning for the…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Interviews, Library Automation

Connaway, Lynn Silipigni; Johnson, Debra Wilcox; Searing, Susan E. – College & Research Libraries, 1997
Discussion of a study conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to elicit information about the library's online catalog. Highlights the use of focus group interviews. Topics include experience with other catalogs, approaches to searching, positive feedback, barriers to use, and changes to the catalog as a result of the study. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Focus Groups, Higher Education, Interviews
Hirsh, Sandra G.; Borgman, Christine L. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
Describes a study that investigated fifth-grade children's search behavior using an automated library catalog designed for children called the Science Library Catalog. Level of science domain knowledge was found to influence both their success and search behavior. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Libraries, Grade 5, Interviews
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