Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ068673
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Publication Date: 1972
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A Timing Study of the Manual Searching Catalogs
Aubry, John
Library Quarterly, 42, 4, 399-415, Oct 72
Experiments were designed and carried out in an attempt to identify some parameters relating to ease of manual searching in library catalogs. A comparison of the difficulty of searching the same file in card form and book form indicated that searching the book catalog generally requires more time. (4 references) (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Book Catalogs, Catalogs, Classification, Experiments, Indexes, Library Catalogs, Library Collections, Search Strategies, Timed Tests
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