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Testing a New Design for Subject Searching in Online Catalogs.
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Drabenstott, Karen M.; Weller, Marjorie S. – Library Hi Tech, 1994
Describes a project that demonstrates subject searching in an experimental online catalog based on academic library databases that were enhanced with search trees; compares the retrieval effectiveness of search trees with random subject searching approaches; evaluates system and retrieval effectiveness; and discusses proposed research. (Contains…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Records, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods
MacNOTIS-NOTIS User Interface Development and Test.
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Hall, Hal W. – Library Hi Tech, 1994
Provides an overview of the MacNOTIS interface project at Texas A&M University to provide a tool to make the NOTIS online public access catalog more accessible to users. Highlights include an intuitive interface, saving to disk, local printing, reusable search strings, online help, and automatic dial-up. (JLB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, College Libraries, Federal Aid, Gateway Systems
Improving Library Subject Access (ILSA): A Theory of Clustering Based in Classification.
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Micco, Mary; Popp, Rich – Library Hi Tech, 1994
Discussion of precision in information retrieval highlights a prototype online catalog, ILSA (Improving Library Subject Access), developed at Indiana University of Pennsylvania that uses subject clusters and classification. Topics addressed include problems with keyword searching, controlled vocabulary, and thesauri; natural language mapping…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Classification, College Libraries, Dewey Decimal Classification