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Download full textConnaway, Lynn Silipigni, Comp. – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2015
The contributions in this volume represent a decade of OCLC's user behavior research findings that articulate the need for the design of future library services to be all about the user. Highlights include: (1) People associate the library with books and do not consider the library in relation to online resources or reference services; (2) People…
Descriptors: Library Services, User Needs (Information), User Satisfaction (Information), Library Research
Super Searchers Go to School: Sharing Online Strategies with K-12 Students, Teachers, and Librarians
Direct linkValenza, Joyce Kasman – Information Today, Inc., 2005
Twelve prominent K-12 educators and educator librarians share their techniques and tips for helping students become effective, life-long information users. Through a series of skillful interviews, Joyce Kasman Valenza--techlife@school columnist for the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and herself a tech-savvy high school librarian--gets the experts to…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Search Strategies, Teaching Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Block, Marylaine, Ed. – 2001
This book presents selected writings by Barbara Quint (BQ) on online searching. The selections are organized into the following chapters: (1) "The Art of Searching," including finding out what the patron wants, preparing for the search, knowing when the search is done, search styles, rules of online searching, cost issues, Quint's Laws,…
Descriptors: Internet, Librarians, Library Services, Online Searching
Peer reviewedFidel, Raya – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1991
These three articles discuss online search key selection based on observations of professional online searchers, interviews, and analyses of the verbal and search protocols involved. The selection routine is described, the use of controlled vocabulary versus free text searching is examined, and searching styles are discussed. (44 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Expert Systems, Full Text Databases, Interviews
Online, Inc., Weston, CT. – 1988
Reprints of 17 articles presenting strategies and tips for searching databases online appear in this collection, which is one in a series of volumes of reprints from "ONLINE" and "DATABASE" magazines. Edited for information professionals who use electronically distributed databases, these articles address such topics as: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Graphics, Computer Software
Sarkodie-Mensah, Kwasi, Ed. – 2000
This book offers approaches for teaching adult patrons how and where to find information in libraries and through information services. It includes 34 papers, organized in seven sections, expressing the views of faculty, adult students, and administrators as well as librarians on theories of educational psychology that explain how adults learn.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, College Faculty, Computer Attitudes
