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Delaney, Geraldine; Bates, Jessica – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2018
This article investigates academic library needs of doctoral students. The study identifies PhD students' information literacy training needs and explores current levels of library engagement, barriers to use, and gaps in existing services. First-year PhD students at Ulster University (UU) were surveyed and interviews were undertaken with three…
Descriptors: Users (Information), Information Needs, Library Services, Graduate Students
Adekunjo, Olalekan Abraham; Adepoju, Samuel Olusegun; Adeola, Anuoluwapo Odebunmi – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The study assessed users' information needs and satisfaction in selected seminary libraries in Oyo State, Nigeria. This paper employed the descriptive survey research design, whereby the expost-facto was employed with a sample size of three hundred (300) participants, selected from six seminaries located in Ibadan, Oyo and Ogbomoso, all in Oyo…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Users (Information), Theological Education, Foreign Countries
Yi, Zhixian – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2007
This study examines international student information needs and whether education level, age, and gender affect their information use. An e-mail survey revealed that international students need information that supports their academic courses, and those with higher education levels use databases, remote access to library offerings, and e-journals…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Information Needs, Courses, Surveys
Moncrieff, Joan; Macauley, Peter; Epps, Janine – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2007
Supporting the information needs of researchers adequately is a major challenge for university libraries. This paper outlines results of a survey of 23 researchers conducted by Deakin University Library into their information needs and perceptions of the library's role and performance. The survey challenged established ideas about researchers'…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Information Needs, Library Services

Pazzano, Deborah – Canadian Library Journal, 1986
The document organization skills of librarians can be used to provide information management for computerized databases within corporations. Librarians should be exploring these career opportunities. (CLB)
Descriptors: Corporate Libraries, Databases, Emerging Occupations, Industry

King, Jack B. – Reference Librarian, 1994
Discussion of historians as library users divides the historians into four categories: professional historians, student historians, amateur historians, and family historians. Highlights include examples of problems with library services, including misleading library catalogs and inadequate reference service; the reference librarian as guide to…
Descriptors: Databases, Futures (of Society), Historians, History
Tertell, Susan M. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1983
This profile of INFORM, the fee-based service offered by Minneapolis Public Library and Information Center, highlights its background, online search services and frequently used databases, major planning considerations (equipment, user aids, choice of vendor, training), internal operations (billing, purchasing items for clients), marketing, and…
Descriptors: Business, Databases, Fees, Information Needs
Settel, Barbara; Gearty, Tom – 1980
This paper reports on the development of an online union catalog of serials using OCLC by the Central New York Library Resources Council. The project, now in the third of four years, is converting from a hard copy union catalog of serials to an online catalog that will have the important advantage of immediate update. Using the OCLC interlibrary…
Descriptors: Databases, Guidelines, Information Needs, Information Retrieval
Anderson, Charles – Library Journal, 1986
This article provides realities in reaction to myths that have developed around online searching based on experience at Northbrook Public Library (Illinois). Discussion covers experience needed by online searcher, use of the multitude of databases, retrieval of relevant material, and cost. Two reference situations utilizing online searching…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Information Needs, Job Skills

Rowe, Judith S. – Library Trends, 1982
Discusses the importance of machine-readable data files (MRDF) in social sciences reference exchange and provides examples of their use in typical library settings. Access to and available MRDF are described. Nine references are included. (EJS)
Descriptors: Databases, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Library Services
Ma, Wei; Cole, Timothy W. – Illinois Libraries, 2000
Describes the creation and testing of an online prototype, end-user database selection tool developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Discusses identifying computer-assisted techniques for guiding users to the most suitable databases for their information needs; improving user services; and improving ease of access to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Databases, Expert Systems
Falk, Joyce Duncan – 1985
College and university librarians were surveyed in May 1984 to assess their experiences and opinions with respect to online searching in the humanities. A questionnaire was mailed to 1,160 4-year college and university libraries in the American Library Directory (1983) that listed an online services coordinator, an enrollment of 1,000 or more, or…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Higher Education, Humanities
Holt, Constance W. – 1985
This conference paper addresses the abundance of information delivery choices available to academic library online searchers. Following a review of changes and choices that have developed during the past decade, the paper suggests 10 ways for the searcher to keep up to date in this fast changing field: (1) read subject-related journals, system…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Database Producers, Databases, Higher Education
Eaton, Nancy – Electronic and Optical Publishing Review, 1986
Examines factors which may affect the receptivity of librarians to the use of optical disk technologies, including hardware and software issues, the content of currently available databases, and the integration of optical technologies into existing library services. (CLB)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Computer Storage Devices, Databases, Electronic Publishing

Awcock, Frances – Australian Library Journal, 1985
Discusses need for retrospective conversion of library catalogs in terms of user-problems related to split catalogs in various formats. Difficulties to be overcome in retrospective conversion projects (ownership of records, costs, non-Roman script languages, standards and inhospitability of MARC for variety of manuscript and pictorial material)…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Costs, Databases, Information Needs