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Starting Over: Current Issues in Online Catalog User Interface Design.

Peer reviewed

Crawford, Walt – Information Technology and Libraries, 1992

Discussion of online catalogs focuses on issues in interface design. Issues addressed include understanding the user base; common user access (CUA) with personal computers; common command language (CCL); hyperlinks; screen design issues; differences from card catalogs; indexes; graphic user interfaces (GUIs); color; online help; and remote users.…

Descriptors: Color, Computer Graphics, Design Requirements, Hypermedia

Hyping the OPAC: Adapting a Macintosh User Interface to the NOTIS Online Catalog.

Peer reviewed

Antelman, Kristin – Reference Services Review, 1992

Describes a Macintosh user interface to the NOTIS (Northwestern Online Total Integrated System) online public access catalog (OPAC) developed at the University of Delaware. Adaptation of the HyperCard-based interface from Cornell University, MacPAC, is described; testing and marketing is discussed; and future developments are addressed. (six…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Graphics, Computer System Design, Evaluation Methods

Overview of Graphical User Interfaces.

Hulser, Richard P. – Computers in Libraries, 1993

Discussion of graphical user interfaces for online public access catalogs (OPACs) covers the history of OPACs; OPAC front-end design, including examples from Indiana University and the University of Illinois; and planning and implementation of a user interface. (10 references) (EA)

Descriptors: Access to Information, College Libraries, Computer Graphics, Computer Software Development

The Science Library Catalog Project: Comparison of Children's Searching Behavior in Hypertext and a Keyword Search System.

Borgman, Christine L.; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991

Reports on a continuing project to study children's use of the Science Library Catalog (SLC), a graphically based direct manipulation microcomputer interface for locating science materials in elementary school libraries. Search success on SLC, which uses HyperCard, is compared with a Boolean system; effects of age and gender are studied; and user…

Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Computer Graphics, Computer Software