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Peer reviewedSlater, Ron – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1991
Describes the use of MultiLIS, a fully bilingual integrated library-management software package, at Laurentian University. The authority control module is explained, its potential as a control system for multilingual or multithesaurus controlled vocabularies is considered, and an evaluation of the MultiLIS authority module is presented with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, College Libraries, Database Management Systems
Coffman, Steve – Searcher, 1999
Examines the Amazon.com online bookstore as a blueprint for designing the world's largest library. Topics include selection; accessibility and convenience; quality of Web sites and search tools; personalized service; library collection development, including interlibrary loan; library catalogs and catalog records; a circulation system; costs;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Records, Bookstores, Costs
Peer reviewedLorenzen, Elizabeth A., Ed. – Reference Librarian, 1996
This volume's topics include librarian role and ethical issues in Internet searching, strategies for locating career resources on the Internet and World Wide Web, career information for "Generation X" and for alumni, collaboration between libraries and university career services, career information gophers, and electronic privacy and…
Descriptors: Career Information Systems, Career Planning, Computer Security, Cooperative Programs
Basch, Reva – 1996
This book presents the collected wisdom of 35 leading Internet hunters and gatherers. Through interviews, these experts offer insights, anecdotes, tips, techniques, and case histories which will raise the "searching IQ" of any serious Internet user. The Super Net Searchers explain how they find valuable information on the Internet,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Efficiency, Futures (of Society)
Download full textChou, Chien; Lin, Hua – 1997
A study of first-year college students (n=121) in Taiwan investigated the effects of navigation maps and learner cognitive styles on performance in searches for information, estimation of course scope, and the development of cognitive maps within a hypertext learning course. Students were tested to determine level of perceptual field dependence…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Style, College Students, Computer Networks
Rux, Paul, Ed. – 1993
This document is one of three in the "Skills for Life: Library Information Literacy" series designed to cover the entire kindergarten through 12 curriculum. The looseleaf notebook format allows the user to add information and pages and personalize the materials. This volume is devoted to high school grades 9 through 12. The 59 lesson plans for…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Curriculum Development, Educational Technology, High School Students
Joyce, Marilyn; And Others – 1993
The interdisciplinary approach to the research process using information technology as implemented for sophomores at Stearns High School in Millinocket (Maine) integrates information skills and technology into biology and English curricula by helping students overcome obstacles encountered in the presearch or planning phase of the research…
Descriptors: Biology, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Disease Control, Educational Technology
Ferguson, Douglas; And Others – 1982
In 1981 and 1982, the Research Libraries Group (RLG) and four other organizations participated in a coordinated study of public online catalog users and nonusers. Standard, self-administered questionnaires were used to gather data from 8,094 users and 3,981 nonusers in 31 research, academic, community college, public, and governmental libraries…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Card Catalogs, Higher Education, Information Retrieval
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Curriculum Support Branch. – 1990
Intended for teachers and teacher-librarians, this guide provides instructional materials and commentary to help students grow in their ability to gather, process, and share information, and develop research skills applicable to any subject area and in real life situations. The guide is divided into seven chapters: (1) "Introduction and…
Descriptors: Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Markey, Karen; Demeyer, Anh N. – 1986
In this research project, subject terms from the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Schedules and Relative Index were incorporated into an online catalog as searcher's tools for subject access, browsing, and display. Four features of the DDC were employed to help searchers browse for and match their own subject terms with the online catalog's…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classification, Databases, Dewey Decimal Classification
BIVONA, WILLIAM A. – 1966
THIS REPORT PRESENTS AN ANALYSIS OF OVER EIGHTEEN SMALL, INTERMEDIATE, AND LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS FOR THE SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION (SDI). SYSTEMS ARE COMPARED AND ANALYZED WITH RESPECT TO DESIGN CRITERIA AND THE FOLLOWING NINE SYSTEM PARAMETERS--(1) INFORMATION INPUT, (2) METHODS OF INDEXING AND ABSTRACTING, (3) USER INTEREST PROFILE…
Descriptors: Automation, Bibliographies, Costs, Data Processing
Peer reviewedPenhale, Sara J.; Taylor, Nancy – RQ, 1986
Describes results of several studies which led to integration of end-user searching using BRS/After Dark in the bibliographic instruction program at Earlham College (Indiana). These studies compared results and patterns of online searches by students and librarians, as well as online and manual searches by students. Student opinions were also…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Hartman, Melissa E., Ed. – Imagine, 2000
These five issues of a magazine designed for highly gifted and talented secondary students address marine science, anthropology and archaeology, making the most of summer, medicine and health sciences, and the World Wide Web. Featured articles include: (1) "The Ocean's Call: How My Love for the Ocean Grew into a Career" (Jessica Schulman Farrar);…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acting, Anthropology, Archaeology
Pollitt, A. Steven; Smith, Martin P.; Treglown, Mark; Braekevelt, Patrick – 1996
This paper presents the background and then reports progress made in the development of two view-based searching systems--HIBROWSE for EMBASE, searching Europe's most important biomedical bibliographic database, and HIBROWSE for EPOQUE, improving access to the European Parliament's Online Query System. The HIBROWSE approach to searching promises…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Biomedicine, Databases, Foreign Countries
Ochsner, Heinz; Thomas, Karen – 1996
The Internet has brought about a revolution in the concept of information provision for end-users, and opened up a diverse new market. The Internet has challenged the need for and role of traditional online services. Despite the benefits of the Internet, users face a number of dilemmas: finding needed information in a vast sea of information; time…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
