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Perdue, Bob; Piotrowski, Chris – 1990
This study examined current information retrieval strategies used by online searchers involved in psychological research. A survey was distributed in fall 1988 to 200 database coordinators at institutions of higher education throughout the United States to obtain information on the databases accessed and use of multi-database options. The response…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Higher Education, Library Surveys
Skekloff, Susan D. – 1987
This report describes a 1986 survey of procedures and priorities at Indiana University and Purdue University regional campus libraries designed to aid the librarians at the Walter E. Helmke Library at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, in re-evaluating various library procedures. Responses were received from nine of the 11 libraries…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Instruction, Library Personnel
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Landry, Abbie – RQ, 1985
Describes responses of 19 Louisiana academic libraries to questionnaire designed to determine scope and conduct of academic online searching search services. Telecommunications networks, terminals, patrons, library search procedures, methods of charging fees, special features, selective dissemination of information, computer searching by…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Services, Library Surveys
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Salomon, Kristine – RQ, 1988
A survey of 121 academic libraries examined five general areas of CD-ROM use: (1) user and librarian acceptance; (2) impact on the printed source; (3) cost; (4) assistance and maintenance; and (5) user confusion with multiple computer resources. A copy of the questionnaire is appended. (12 references) (MES)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Costs, Higher Education, Library Surveys
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Bellardo, Trudi; Stephenson, Judy – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1986
Fifty-five Association of Research Libraries member academic libraries were surveyed to determine trends in use of commercially available online numeric databases. Databases searched, searchers, users, publicity, library role in relation to numeric databases, and librarians' attitudes toward and knowledge of databases are examined. The…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Associations, Library Services
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Savage, Daniel – Canadian Library Journal, 1988
Reports the results of a survey that examined the role of small university libraries in Canadian communities. The discussion covers services currently available to communities, areas in which services could be improved or extended, and the benefits to be gained by both the library and the community. (19 references) (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Benefits, Foreign Countries, Interlibrary Loans
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1980
This Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) kit examines the current state of online services based upon the experiences of a select number of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries in the United States and Canada. Many of the kit documents were obtained during a survey of eight private institutions conducted for Duke…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Library Expenditures
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Carson, Elizabeth – Canadian Library Journal, 1985
This survey of the literature reveals user and professional opinions of changes in subject access features available for online public access catalogs. Highlights include expanded access to fields already incorporated into traditional MARC record, access to context of the record, and design of the user interface. Twenty-four references are cited.…
Descriptors: Display Systems, Library Catalogs, Library Services, Library Surveys
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Eger, A. J. – Online Review, 1988
Two questionnaires sent to medical librarians and users of the Core Medline/Ebsco CD-ROM disc in the Netherlands gathered data on librarians' attitudes toward the various forms in which Medline is offered--i.e., printed, online, and CD-ROM. Tables and graphs present data on product attributes, availability, use, relevance, subjects searched,…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Comparative Analysis, Databases, Foreign Countries
Rholes, Julia M.; Caldwell-Wood, Naomi – 1987
This study conducted at Texas A&M University compares two types of training approaches using ERIC SilverPlatter (ERIC SP). Education students received either: (1) a one hour training session on basic search commands and strategies, or (2) a four page instructional handout that described basic search commands, Boolean logic, and special…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy, Education Majors, Evaluation Criteria
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McKinney, Gayle; Mosby, Anne Page – Online Review, 1986
Presents results of survey based on sample of 500 U.S. academic libraries which was conducted during spring and summer of 1984 to gather descriptive data on current status of online searching and to predict future trends. Four broad categories are covered: availability; search service characteristics; evaluation; future trends. (31 references)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Utilities, Charts, Futures (of Society)
Gorman, Kathleen – 1987
This System and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) flyer/kit is based on two research efforts: a 1986 SPEC survey on the collection and use of management statistics related to reference services, and a 1987 supplemental survey on qualitative measures of reference services. A brief introduction describes the survey and discusses the evaluation of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Databases, Evaluation Methods
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Tenopir, Carol; Ennis, Lisa – Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2002
Discusses results of four surveys sent to members of the Association of Research Libraries to investigate changes in academic library reference services due to new and rapidly evolving technologies. Highlights include digital reference options; local databases; CD-ROMs; intermediary online searching; end-user online search services; and the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education
Anderson, Nancy D.; Stenstrom, Patricia F. – 1989
Documentation supplied in this kit demonstrates how research libraries provide services to visiting scholars as distinguished from other categories of external user. A "visiting scholar" is most often defined as a faculty member affiliated with an institution of higher education but the term may also include independent scholars and persons…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Higher Education, Library Circulation
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Pisciotta, Henry; And Others – Library Hi Tech, 1984
Search Helper, a microcomputer software package marketed by Information Access Company to serve as a gateway to several of their databases, was selected as a system for introducing the Carnegie-Mellon University community to do-it-yourself database searching. Preliminary results of user survey indicate service to be extremely popular with library…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Software, Display Systems, Higher Education
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