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Current Research: A Study of High School Students' Online Catalog Searching Behavior
Shu-Hsien Chen
- Patricia Sullivan and Peggy Seiden, "Educating Online Catalog Users: The Protocol Assessment of Needs," Library Hi-Tech 3 (Issue 10, 1985): 18.
- Jacqueline C. Mancall, "Training Students to Search Online: Rationale, Process, and Implications," Drexel Library Quarterly 20 (Winter 1984): 64-84.
- Robert Skapura, "A Primer on Automating the Card Catalog," SLMQ 18 (Winter 1990): 75-78; M. Turnage, "User Education," Texas Library Journal 61 (Winter 1985): 112-13, 128-29.
- Catherine Murphy, ed. Automating School School Library Catalogs: A Reader (Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1992).
- Doris M. Epler, Online Searching Goes to School (Phoenix, Az.: Oryx, 1989).
- Joseph R. Matthews, Gary S. Lawrence, and Douglas K. Ferguson, eds., Using Online Catalogs: A Nationwide Survey (New York: Neal-Schuman, 1983).
- Karen Markey, Subject Searching in Library Catalogs: Before and after the Introduction of Online Catalogs (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 1984).
- Christine L. Borgman, "Why Are Online Catalogs Hard to Use? Lessons Learned from Information-Retrieval Studies," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 37 (Nov. 1986): 387-400.
- Sue Pease and Mary Noel Gouke, "Patterns of Use in an Online Catalog and a Card Catalog," College & Research Libraries 43 (July 1982): 279-91; Carol Watson, Susan Williamson, and Howard D. White, "Resistance to Online Catalogs: A Comparative Study at Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges," Library Resources and Technical Services 30 (Oct./Dec. 1986): 388-401.
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- Delia Neuman, "Designing Databases as Tools for Higher-Level Learning," Educational Technology Research and Development (in press); Paul Solomon, "Children's Information Retrieval Behavior: A Case Analysis of an OPAC," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 44 (June 1993): 245-64.
- MacLAP: User's manual (Cupertino, Calif.: CASPR, 1989).
- Shu-Hsien Chen, "A Study of Online Catalog Searching Behavior of High School Students" (Ed.D. diss., Univ. of Georgia, 1991).
- F. M. Lancaster, The Measurement and Evaluation of Library Services (Washington, D.C.: Information Resources Press, 1977).
- Jean Dickson, "An Analysis of User Errors in Searching an Online Catalog," Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 4 (Spring 1984): 1-38.
- David R. McDonald and Susan E. Searing, "Bibliographic Instruction and the Development of Online Catalogs." College & Research Libraries 44 (Jan. 1983): 10.
- Penelope A. Moore and Alison St. George, "Children as Information Seekers: The Cognitive Demands of Books and Library Systems," SLMQ 19 (Spring 1991): 165.
- Carol H. Fenichel, "Online Searching: Measures that Discriminate among Users with Different Types of Experiences," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 32 (Jan. 1981): 23-32.
- Dickson, "Analysis of User Errors."
- Fenichel, "Online Searching."
- Matthews, Lawrence, and Ferguson, Using Online Catalogs.
- Sullivan and Seiden, "Educating Online Catalog Users," 18.
- Stephen P. Harter, Online Information Retrieval: Concepts, Principles, and Techniques (New York: Academic Press, 1986).
- Moore and St. George, "Children as Information Seekers," 167.
- Elizabeth S. Aversa and Jacqueline C. Mancall, Management of Online Search Services in Schools (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1989), xiii.
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