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Compact Disc Cataloging Product User Survey.

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Whitehair, David E. – 1990

In late 1988, a compact disc cataloging product was introduced to the library market. In order to learn more about the needs of current users, a survey was developed to include questions concerning software features and operations, software enhancements, bibliographic and authority subsets, and hardware issues. This study was conducted among all…

Descriptors: Cataloging, Computer Software, Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation

End-User Searching of ERIC Using Dialog-Ondisc: Menu Driven versus Command Version, with Mediated Online Searching Comparisons.

Jayatilleke, Raja – 1989

DIALOG Information Services, one of many vendors offering the ERIC database as a CD-ROM product (DIALOG OnDisc ERIC), offers end users a choice of searching using either a menu- or a command-driven mode. The menu-driven EASY MENU is intended to relieve the user from learning search commands, and is said to be easier to learn and remember. The…

Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Computer Software Evaluation, Information Needs, Information Retrieval