Surname plus recallable title word searches for known items by scholars

Kilgour, Frederick G.; Moran, Barbara B.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(2000)51:1<83::aid-asi11>3.3.co;2-0

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“…As inferred in the first article (Kilgour, 1995, pp. 146–147), computers comprise the instrumentation of this research program.…”

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“…The results of the search were assigned the same number as given the citation and recorded in a notebook in the form of one line for author and one for title. A model screen of 20 lines was used, as described in full in the original article (Kilgour, 1995, p. 147). It was possible to restrict the experiment to use of title‐page information by using the NOTIS Limiting search function described in the fourth article (Kilgour, Moran, & Barden, 1999, p. 267).…”

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Known‐item online searches employed by scholars using surname plus first, or last, or first and last title words

Kilgour

2001

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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This experiment explores the effectiveness of retrieving the listing of a known-item book from the 3.6 million entry onine catalog at the library of the University of Michigan using various combinations of author's name plus first and last title words. The principal finding was that 98.9% of the time a 1 to 20 line miniature catalog (minicat) was displayed that contained either the entry sought or a not-in-database (NID) reply when the search comprised all three words.

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“…As inferred in the first article (Kilgour, 1995, pp. 146–147), computers comprise the instrumentation of this research program.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 73%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%