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LePoer, Peter M.; Mularski, Carol A. – Laserdisk Professional, 1989
Describes a study that surveyed users to examine the impact of a well-established CD-ROM service on traditional mediated searching and library staff workload. Findings discussed include user demographics, notification and training, searching precision and problems, users' perceptions of the service, and users' comparisons of online service to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Databases, Higher Education, Medical Libraries
Nicholls, Paul; Holtmann, Susanne – Laserdisk Professional, 1989
Compares free text versus controlled vocabulary searching for information relating to women's issues on the ERIC laserdisk database from Dialog. Topics discussed include terminology and women's studies; Boolean operators; and adequacy of the ERIC thesaurus for searching relevant topics including women's social roles, antiabortion movement, teenage…
Descriptors: Abortions, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis, Females