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López Vicent, Patricia; Serrano, José Luis; Gutiérrez Porlán, Isabel – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2022
The purpose of the present study is to delve into the process of personal management of digital information among Spanish university students in their final year and to analyze whether there are similarities or differences regarding students' gender. A non-experimental methodological design has been implemented of an exploratory type and based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Information Management, Information Technology
Alaofi, Marwah; Rumantir, Grace – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2015
This research explores the application of implicit personalisation techniques in information retrieval in the context of education. Motivated by the large and ever-growing volume of resources in digital libraries, coupled with students' limited experience in searching for these resources, particularly in translating their information needs into…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Electronic Libraries, Online Searching, Enrollment
Ji, Shengyue – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the underlying data, and have to use a try-and-see approach for finding information. The trend of supporting autocomplete in these systems is a first step towards solving this problem. A…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Online Searching, Search Strategies, Computer Interfaces
Modritscher, Felix; Krumay, Barbara; El Helou, Sandy; Gillet, Denis; Nussbaumer, Alexander; Albert, Dietrich; Dahn, Ingo; Ullrich, Carsten – Digital Education Review, 2011
Personal learning environment (PLE) solutions aim at empowering learners to design (ICT and web-based) environments for their learning activities, mashing-up content and people and apps for different learning contexts. Widely used in other application areas, recommender systems can be very useful for supporting learners in their PLE-based…
Descriptors: Expertise, Instructional Design, Information Technology, Evaluation
Bitton, Ephrat – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation explores the use of geometric and graphical models for a variety of information search and filtering applications. These models serve to provide an intuitive understanding of the problem domains and as well as computational efficiencies to our solution approaches. We begin by considering a search and rescue scenario where both…
Descriptors: Safety, Opinions, Hypothesis Testing, Intuition
Lamothe, Alain R. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a quantitative analysis exploring the interaction and relationship between the online database and electronic journal collections at the J. N. Desmarais Library of Laurentian University. A very strong relationship exists between the number of searches and the size of the online database…
Descriptors: Interaction, Electronic Journals, Databases, Online Searching
Holman, Lucy – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This qualitative study examines first-year college students' online search habits in order to identify patterns in millennials' mental models of information retrieval. The study employed a combination of modified contextual inquiry and concept mapping methodologies to elicit students' mental models. The researcher confirmed previously observed…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Online Searching, Search Strategies, Internet
Kuzu, Abdullah; Firat, Mehmet – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2010
The Internet users who fail to cope with navigation may generally face various problems such as disorientation, distraction, low motivation and abandonment of information retrieval. Therefore, navigational aids are frequently used in today's Web browsers and Web sites to help users navigate on the Internet. However, it is asserted that…
Descriptors: Internet, Information Technology, Web Sites, Search Strategies
Baudino, Frank, Ed.; Johnson, Carolyn, Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
Eighteen scholarly papers and twelve abstracts comprise the content of the fourteenth annual Brick and Click Libraries Symposium, held annually at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. The proceedings, authored by academic librarians and presented at the symposium, portray the contemporary and future face of librarianship.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Information Technology, Electronic Libraries
Goh, Tiong-Thye – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
This paper investigates differences in how male and female students perceived a short message service (SMS) library catalog search service when adopting it. Based on a sample of 90 students, the results suggest that there are significant differences in perceived usefulness and intention to use but no significant differences in self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Females, Self Efficacy, Intention, Libraries
Carlson, Kathleen – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2011
This paper takes a look at how one academic health sciences librarian brought mediated literature searching to the distance RN to BSN nursing students. It takes a look at why Adobe Connect was the webinar software that was selected to deliver online instruction to the students. The article explains how students participated in a pre-class survey…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Sciences
Song, Sang Chul – ProQuest LLC, 2010
An unprecedented amount of information encompassing almost every facet of human activities across the world is generated daily in the form of zeros and ones, and that is often the only form in which such information is recorded. A good fraction of this information needs to be preserved for periods of time ranging from a few years to centuries.…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Sources, Indexing, Access to Information
Webster, Peter – Library Journal, 2007
For years, patrons have been able to access library services from home and in the library building, but in the world of Google, Yahoo, YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook, library web sites and catalogs are too often not the first place people go to look for information. The innovative use of toolbars could change this. Toolbars have been popular for…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Library Facilities, Library Services, Internet

Drenth, Hilary; And Others – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 1991
Examines how the use of expert systems has been applied to model the performance of an online search intermediary. Types of knowledge representation used in expert systems are reviewed, the role of the intermediary in online information retrieval is discussed, and both prototype and operational intermediary systems are described. (152 references)…
Descriptors: Expert Systems, Information Technology, Literature Reviews, Online Searching
Goldsborough, Reid – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2004
If you build it, will they come? This is one of the fundamental questions anybody creating a Web site has to confront, whether you're a business person, a Web professional or a home user. One of the fundamental ways to ensure people do come, and return, is to make the content of your site as appealing and as accessible as possible. A new study by…
Descriptors: Internet, Information Technology, Computers, Web Sites