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| Kantor, Paul B. | 7 |
| Saracevic, Tefko | 2 |
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| Journal Articles | 6 |
| Reports - Research | 5 |
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Peer reviewedKantor, Paul B.; Saracevic, Tefko – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1997
The second of two parts, this article develops a taxonomy of value-in-use for library and information services based on user assessments and proposes methods and instruments for similar studies of library and information services in general. Divides value of services into three classes: reasons for use; quality of interaction; and worth, benefits…
Descriptors: Classification, Information Services, Library Research, Library Services
Peer reviewedKantor, Paul B. – RQ, 1981
Discusses the results of an analysis of the reference process in which behavioral outcomes were distinguished from the causal factors that inhibit the delivery of reference service. Data on reference services in 16 libraries are analyzed and presented in five figures and three tables. A 26-item reference list is included. (JL)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Librarians, Library Collections, Library Research
Peer reviewedKantor, Paul B. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1994
Identifies current trends in the automation of indexing, of information retrieval, and of interaction between the system and the users. Topics discussed include location, navigation, and indexing; digital libraries; matching documents to queries; weight of concepts; query structure, including fuzzy sets; algorithms; stemming; clustering; users'…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Evaluation Methods, Futures (of Society)
Peer reviewedKantor, Paul B. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987
Examines a statistical model in which the users of an online system continually update their estimated probability of success, and quit or continue the search according to the expected utility of each action. The implications for search strategies are discussed. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Behavior Patterns, Models, Online Searching
Kantor, Paul B.; Saracevic, Tefko – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1995
Describes the development of a taxonomy of the value of library services based on users' assessments from five large research libraries. Highlights include empirical and derived taxonomy, replicability of the study, reasons for using the library, how library services are related to time and money, and a theory of value. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classification, Higher Education, Library Services
Download full textKantor, Paul B.; And Others – 1995
This is the final technical report (in three parts) of a 15-month long project to study the costs and value of library functions at five major research libraries. Twenty-one services or service aspects were studied, and numerous measures of the importance or benefit of the service to the users were made. These measures were studied together to lay…
Descriptors: Classification, Costs, Evaluation Methods, Information Services
Kantor, Paul B.; Nordlie, Ragnar – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Illustrates how various key abstractions of information finding, such as document relevance, a desired number of relevant documents, discouragement, exhaustion, and satisfaction can be modeled using the Petri Net framework. Shows that this model leads naturally to a new approach to collection of user data, and to analysis of transaction logs.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Document Delivery, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking
