End User Searching

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End User Instructions for Searching MEDLARS

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BRS Colleague MEDLINE End User Training Follow-up Survey

The amount of recent literature describing end user training programs is substantial, yet there are few reports evaluating the effectiveness of such training. This article reports on a follow-up survey of the first seventy-five trainees of a four-hour BRS Colleague MEDLINE training program at the Health Sciences Library of East Carolina University. The 90.7 percent response rate to the questionnaire provided information about both those who performed searches and those who had not. It indicated how trainees felt about their training, their ability to perform searches or reason for not performing searches, and types of additional training the trainees desired. Survey results are discussed in terms of effectiveness of the training for the end user with infrequent search needs, possible modifications to improve the effectiveness of the training, and possible alternatives to BRS Colleague MEDLINE.     

The E-Deal: Keeping Up to Date and Allowing Access to the End User

The “Big Deal” presents unique problems when tracking, cataloging, and promoting content. This article considers different ways of ensuring that content is accurately identified and recorded, and suggests a range of ways in which material can be made available to end users. Issues raised include staffing, the problems of cataloging digital items, and the reliability of knowledge bases and electronic resource management systems (ERMs), which import detail on e-journal packages. Finally, the article looks forward to potential developments that will allow deals to be managed in a way that makes them more current and relevant.     

An End User Search Service in an Academic Health Sciences Library

This paper describes the experience of an academic health sciences library which made BRS/After Dark, an end user search service, available to its clientele as a complement to its mediated search service. The library environment, initial publicity efforts and administrative procedures are discussed. An attempt is made to evaluate the usefulness of the service in a library environment. This evaluation, covering a three-month period, is based on the observations of the librarians administering the service and an exit interview conducted with searchers over a two-month period. User satisfaction, both observed and recorded, was quite high; however, the librarians found that users had more difficulty in constructing appropriate search strategies than had been anticipated. Overall, the service is assessed as highly useful.     

Evolving Institutional Approaches to Subsidizing End User Access to Research Databases: A Case Study

This paper reviews work of the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP, recently renamed the Getty Information Institute) over the past decade to subsidize end user on-line access to scholarly research databases. A brief history of AHIP's work in the area is followed by a summary of a study of subsidized access to Dialog databases by Getty Center resident scholars which was reported in a series of papers by Marcia Bates, professor of Library Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. This study provided a touchstone for an assessment of the relative merits and opportunities associated with the various contractual arrangements and incentive strategies employed by AHIP with vendors such as Dialog, consortia such as the Research Libraries Group, and a CD-ROM publication program. The effectiveness of each of these methods in reaching the user is compared to print publications and the experimental offer of access to some of the AHIP databases over the World Wide Web.     

中文搜索引擎用户检索式特征探析

这项研究采集了百度、一搜、中搜和搜狗四家中文搜索引擎的七千余项检索式,分别从词汇出现频次、词汇量、类别等方面分析了中文搜索引擎用户的检索行为特征,对开展用户教育和搜索服务设计都有一定的实用价值。     

Reaching NLM through the Internet

Currently, many of the electronic services are still new, and there may be a need for further fine-tuning and changes. Having separate electronic addresses for each service rather than having one centralized address will make it easier for NLM to identify and isolate questions or problems. The Appendix summarizes the commands and addresses mentioned in this article.     

公共部门信息再利用的用户定位及认知调查

文章阐述了公共部门信息再利用的制度进展与用户定位,调查了我国终端用户使用公共部门信息产品的基本现状,分析了信息使用过程中出现的问题,提出了提高终端用户使用公共部门信息的相应对策。     

Library User Instruction in the Curriculum:

Teaching patrons to use library resources unaided has long been recognized as highly desirable, yet the education of reference librarians to do this important instruction has been scattered and haphazard. Slow to develop and emerge as a separate course in library school curricula, this article reports that the situation has now changed, due primarily to the organized efforts and perseverance of practitioners and library and information science educators.     

高屋建瓴 臻于至善——《网络计量学》评介

2011年5月,在参加全国医学信息检索精品课程研讨会期间得知邱均平教授出版了专著《网络计量学》[1],这让我非常兴奋。因为我从1996年开始接触网络资源和搜索引擎,曾在2001年发表了《网络计量学:现状、问题与发展》一文,之后虽偶有想法但未有行动却一直非常关注网络计量学的新论文且多年来在我心里一直纠结着两个问题:第一,关于Webometrics的中文译名统一问题。因为从1999年开始国内     

Teaching the User

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Reaching Beyond Library Employees: Assessing IT Student Workers

ABSTRACT

This article examines a collaboration between academic librarians and campus IT to provide library training and assessment for computer lab consultants who work in the library. Pre- and post-tests were used to gauge lab consultants’ ability to answer frequently asked library questions using online guides. This research project also served as a pilot for collaborations between the library's Coordinator of Outreach and Peer Learning and supervisors of student workers in the library.     

Reaching Out: Newspaper Credibility Among Young Adult Readers

The researchers examined student perceptions of campus and community newspaper credibility at the University of Florida using a Web survey (n = 1,906) of those enrolled in a general education class. A moderate correlation (r = .28) existed between college newspaper credibility and community newspaper credibility. Using hierarchical linear regression, the researchers found interest in news content to be a statistically significant predictor of credibility for both local newspapers and college newspapers. In addition, students whose parents encouraged them to read a newspaper found both newspapers more credible than did their peers, and exposure to a newspaper was found to be a strong predictor of credibility for that newspaper. Finally, the results of this case study also suggest White respondents find local newspapers more credible than other races. Implications for researchers and practitioners were discussed.     

Reaching Out to the Net Generation on Campus

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The tremendous expansion of online information sources has prompted academic librarians to increase their outreach to undergraduates of the “Net Generation” in an effort to more effectively promote their libraries' resources to these students. Such outreach programs involve identifying library resources that support the information-seeking behaviors of Net Generation undergraduates, as well as establishing collaborative relationships with the individuals and groups affiliated with these students. This article describes an outreach initiative conducted by the Reference Department at the Mississippi State University Libraries, in which the Department worked with staff in residence halls to target undergraduates living on campus.     

从“最佳用户”到用户积分制：试论高校图书馆用户激励创新

从发现高校图书馆“最佳用户”评选在用户激励方面存在的缺陷入手,提出用户积分制的激励理念,并阐述用户积分制在资源利用、服务绩效和协同发展三个方面的激励内容,构建高校图书馆实施积分制的用户积分体系。
     

Giving the User a Voice: Capturing Impact Through the Interjection of User Impact Surveys into the Information Retrieval Workflow

This article discusses a novel approach being developed at Oregon State University Libraries to move beyond usage statistics as a method to capture the larger impact of a specific set of resources for faculty. Utilizing a custom developed survey application, Oregon State University collection development librarians are able to modify the proxy workflow, inserting a point-of-use survey, allowing data collection to occur at the point of need and only on specific resources of interest.     

Chauffeured by the User

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Librarians have not traditionally been the developers of iiifurnuition retrieval systems. However, with the growth of the World Wide Weh and online knowledge management opportunities, academic librarians have begun to emerge as online system developers and designers. As librarians jockey lor position as experts in understanding information-seeking behavior in this virtual landscape, they must learn about usability testing. Usability testing reveals how users search for online information and is a key component in determining when a product is easy to use and ready for public use. Both the University of Arizona and OCLC have undergone usability evaluation in various ways and have integrated results of these evaluations into their Web and online product designs.