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Peer reviewedHagenbruch, Harriet – Library Software Review, 1994
Describes American Memory, a multimedia computer system that incorporates CD-ROM and videodisk to provide access in electronic format to some of the Library of Congress archival materials on American history. Highlights include participating libraries; contents of the collections; searching; evaluation; and examples of the system's use at Barnard…
Descriptors: Archives, Computer Software, Computer System Design, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedCrow, Raymond W., Jr.; Starbird, Robert F. – Government Information Quarterly, 1992
Describes the redesign of a CD-ROM database interface by the Congressional Information Service (CIS) that addressed the needs of novice, casual, and expert searchers in academic libraries. Topics discussed include the user profile, the task profile, redesign goals, interaction style, menu design and implementation, system structure and the search…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer System Design, Databases, Higher Education
Peer reviewedAllen, Bryce – Library and Information Science Research, 1993
A study of logical reasoning ability of endusers searching a CD-ROM index and its correlation to searching performance was conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Findings showed a correlation between cognitive skills and citation selection and indicated that computer system design can be improved using a cognitive engineering…
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Computer System Design, Correlation, Higher Education
Download full textTsinakos, Avgoustos A.; Margaritis, Kostantinos G. – 1997
Information retrieval on the World Wide Web has a major obstacle: although data is abundant, it is unlabeled and randomly indexed. This paper discusses the implementation of a consultative Web search engine that minimizes the expertise level that is required from a user to accomplish an advanced search session. The system takes advantage of the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer System Design, Databases, Expert Systems
Spink, Amanda; Beatty, Leslie – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
Results are reported from a study that investigated the extent to which academic library end users conducted multiple search sessions with online public access catalogs or CD-ROM databases at different stages of their information seeking related to a research project. Implications for training, retrieval systems design, and further research are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer System Design, Databases, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPuttapithakporn, Somporn – RQ, 1990
Identifies problems that undergraduate searchers encountered in a search of the ERIC database on CD-ROM. Results of participant observation, questionnaires, and interviews are reported; a taxonomy of user problems is proposed that includes syntactic errors and semantic errors; and recommendations for menu selection systems, online help, and…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Higher Education, Interviews, Literature Reviews
