Making the connection between processing and access: do cataloging decisions affect user access?

Rodman, Ruey L.

doi:10.1016/s1464-9055(00)00171-8

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“…The OPACs offer university students the opportunity to consult more information sources than ever before. For the most part, students approach the search for information on the basis of a known item (author or title search) or a topic (Rodman 2000).…”

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Searching for information in an online public access catalogue (OPAC): the impacts of information search expertise on the use of Boolean operators

Dinet

Favart

Passerault

2004

Computer Assisted Learning

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Boolean systems still constitute most of the installed base of online public access catalogues (OPACs) in the French universities even if many studies have shown that Boolean operators are not frequently used by 'non-librarian' users (by contrast with professional librarians). The first study examined the use of Boolean operators by French university students; In the second study, elaborated to evaluate the impact of information search expertise on this use, Boolean operators are explicitly presented and participants were explicitly invited to use them. We assumed that university students would not frequently use the operators in searching, and that even if they were explicitly invited to make use of them. Results obtained with the first study based on transaction logs analyses confirmed that French university students did not frequently use Boolean operators. The impact of information search expertise, analysed in the second study, compared three levels of expertise: Novice (university students), intermediate (future professional librarians), and expert (professional librarians). Results showed that, even if the three groups were invited to use Boolean operators, this use increased significantly with the level of information search expertise. University students, if they manage procedural functions of connectives in natural language, do not always manage the whole set of procedural functions carried by such connectives when used in the documentary language. So, the relevance of presenting explicit Boolean operators in the OPACs when users are 'non-librarians' is questioned.

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Searching for information in an online public access catalogue (OPAC): the impacts of information search expertise on the use of Boolean operators

Dinet

Favart

Passerault

2004

Computer Assisted Learning

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“…The library OPAC typically offers Nigeria university undergraduates the facilities to check borrower's records, access research resources and reading materials, and read library news bulletins and so on. For the most part, students approach the search for information on the basis of a known item (author or title search) or a topic [5].Academic libraries initiated the automation of its library to cope with the ever changing needs of the students and staff. Library automation may be defined as the application of computers to perform traditional library housekeeping activities such as acquisition, circulation, cataloguing, and reference and serials control.…”

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Factors Affecting Online Public Access Catalogue Provision And Sustainable Use By Undergraduates In Two Selected University Libraries In Ogun And Oyo States, Nigeria.

Ogbole¹,

Atinmo²

2017

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The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting Online Public Access Catalogue provision (OPAC) and sustainable use in two University libraries in Ogun and also a relationship between undergraduates ICT skills and OPAC use. Based on the findings, there are implications for theory, research and practice. For theory and research, the findings suggest the use of principle of least effort model in the study of OPAC design. In the area of practice, the findings highlight the importance of OPAC use, ways of improving OPAC provision and sustainable use and providing individual -level related training to ICT skills so as to help undergraduates harness the full benefits of OPAC.Keyword: Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC), Academic libraries, Undergraduates and Nigeria. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 1-07-2017 Date of acceptance: 20-07-2017 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. IntroductionLibraries were traditionally known to provide access to library information materials through card catalogues and book catalogue as the primary information locating tools. Following advancement in ICT and subsequent development of Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC), the traditional concept of access to library resources which many scholars identified to be prone to numerous challenges has changed. OPAC has brought a changing relationship between libraries and their users in the changing ICT environment. Library OPACs first emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s and have gone through several cycles of change and development all geared towards improvement. The library OPAC as an automated catalogue system was developed as a tool to locate those information resources that had been acquired and stored by the library itself. In this environment, the user is both the primary searcher of the searcher of the system and the user of the information. [1] posits that the online or digital catalogue is a library catalogue consisting of collection of bibliographic records in machine readable format, maintained on a dedicated computer that provides uninterrupted interactive access via terminals or workstations in direct continuous communication with the central computer. Most online catalogues are searchable by author, title, subject heading, and keywords, and allow users to print, download or export records to an e-mail account.[2] describes an OPAC as "knowledge access system whereby the catalogue is both a finding and access tool". According to him, with user expectations becoming more demanding in terms of access to electronic information, the OPAC reflects an organised collection of databases and web. An OPAC is considered to be the heart of the library operations and the gateway of library services as it facilitates the patrons to the various services of the library and acts as "an instrum...

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Making the connection between processing and access: do cataloging decisions affect user access?

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Searching for information in an online public access catalogue (OPAC): the impacts of information search expertise on the use of Boolean operators

Searching for information in an online public access catalogue (OPAC): the impacts of information search expertise on the use of Boolean operators

Factors Affecting Online Public Access Catalogue Provision And Sustainable Use By Undergraduates In Two Selected University Libraries In Ogun And Oyo States, Nigeria.

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