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Designing User Manuals for the Online Public Access Catalog
Library Hi Tech, 1986The writer of functional documents must make both macro‐ and micro‐level judgments: decisions about the format and layout of the document as well as decisions about the wording of each passage. The four steps in producing a document are: 1) Analysis, 2) Planning, 3) Development, and 4) Evaluation, Testing, and Revision.
Peggy Seiden, Patricia Sullivan
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Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs)
2009In one form or another, from a mental list in the mind of the librarian, to book catalogs, card indexes, and online information retrieval systems, some type of meta access has existed to guide library users through library collections. Over the last 40 years, these constructs of paper and wood evolved into Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs).
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Online Public Access Catalogs‐ New Interface Possibilities
Academic and Library Computing, 1991Last month I left the McDonald's cash register interface squared off against Lare Mischo's “command line or death” ultimatum. To those who feel each end of this spectrum has lapsed into hyperbole, I must report a very serious discussion held recently in the largest library in our state, where the so‐called “ATM” (automatic teller machine) interface was
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Online Public Access Catalogs: Accessing Abstracting and Indexing Databases
Academic and Library Computing, 1992Over the past two issues, I've been discussing the various contractual and licensing issues related to accessing abstracting and indexing databases through the online public access catalog. I've discussed ARL's “Guidelines for Licensing Local Databases,” while expanding on those guidelines and touching on topics not covered by the ARL document. In this
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Corpus-Based Query Expansion in Online Public Access Catalogs
2004We propose a probabilistic method for query expansion in online public access catalogs that utilizes both historical query logs and the subject headings in the library catalog. Our method creates correlations between query and document terms, allowing relevant subject headings from the corpus to be retrieved and added to a query.
Komarjaya, J., Poo, D.C.C., Kan, M.-Y.
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The Next Generation of Online Public Access Catalogs:
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 1992Current online catalogs have problems providing reasonable subject access, often resulting in searches with too few or too many hits. These problems can be improved by enhancing MARC records, building semantic networks through cross-referencing, and linking subject headings to classification numbers.
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User goals on an online public access catalog
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1996An ongoing thread in information retrieval research has been the exploration of user goals (or information needs, or problems) on information retrieval systems. It has been suggested that an understanding of goals and their role in the information retrieval interaction can provide insight into appropriate retrieval strategies, relevant documents, and ...
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Online Public Access Catalogs: Remote Access and the Invisible User
Academic and Library Computing, 1992Looks at the needs to begin planning for remote access to online public access catalogs (OPACs), and to consider the special needs of the remote user – beginning at the institutional level – for example, how well does the campus network match up to the ideal service level of easy access for every faculty member and student?
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Using of Text Mining in Online Public Access Catalog
2015One of the products of the information society is an excessive amount of information generated by mankind, and consequently the ways to search, use, process, present and store this information. We can consider entering a keyword to search engine/search tool as a most common way of searching for information. The user consequently expects simple decision-
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Online Public Access Catalogs: OPACs: Accessing Abstracting and Indexing Databases
Academic and Library Computing, 1992In the April issue I continued a discussion of the policy issues and considerations surrounding the linking of disparate online public access catalogs. The March issue began this discussion with a treatment of technical standards related to system linking.
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