Online Catalogs and Their Uses

Cataloging U.S. Depository Materials: A Reevaluation

“…Eighty-five percent reported finding some or all of what they were searching for, and subject searching was of greater interest than the ALA study concluded. 27 Online catalog capabilities such as keyword access and search qualifiers by date, language, and Boolean operatives, however, were not perceived universally as benefits. The CLR study found that language and call-number search limits had a slightly negative effect on satisfact~on and that keyword and Boolean operatives were unrelated to satisfaction.…”