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Pejtersen, Annelise Mark – 1979
Building on a prior investigation of users' formulations and needs in fiction, this study was conducted to determine dominant patterns in public library user-librarian search interactions. Based on analysis of 134 actual user-librarian conversations about fiction recorded under everyday library conditions in Danish public libraries in 1976, it was…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Fiction, Foreign Countries, Interaction
Pejtersen, Annelise Mark – 1977
Because the general alphabetic arrangement of fiction in libraries is of little use to the ordinary reader, whose criteria for selecting books often relates to book content, a multi-dimensional and inexclusive fiction classification scheme was developed as a model for both book description and search strategy. Based on analysis of 160 actual…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classification, Content Analysis, Fiction
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Larsen, Gitte – Electronic Library, 1987
Describes an evaluation of EasyNet, a menu-driven, dial access information system, in which end users conducted their own searches. User comments are discussed in terms of user friendliness, user satisfaction, user problems, and value for money. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Developed Nations, Evaluation Criteria