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Towards An Optimal Level Of Participation Of The Intermediary In The User-System Interface Of Bibliographic Online Search Services, Gilles H. Deschatelets
Towards An Optimal Level Of Participation Of The Intermediary In The User-System Interface Of Bibliographic Online Search Services, Gilles H. Deschatelets
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The present research project focuses on the user/system interface of on-line bibliographic search services and more specifically on the role of the human intermediary in the context of on-line searching. A quasi-experimental study was designed with 34 end-users and 22 intermediaries who performed 102 online searches in 6 different organizations (3 academic and 3 special libraries). Each end-user was given a one-day training session and then prepared three different search questions. An on-line search was performed for each question: one direct search (the end-user alone), one delegated search (the intermediary alone) and one combined search (the end-user and intermediary together).;Numerous …
The Influence Of Eighteenth-Century British Landscape Aesthetics On Narrative And Pictorial Responses To The British North American North And West 1769-1872, I S. Maclaren
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This study undertakes a consideration of a century of travel writing by Britons who explored, surveyed, traded, hunted, prospected, botanized, and established missions in the British North American North and West between 1769 and 1872. Its particular concern is how Britons employed the principles and conventions of eighteenth-century British landscape aesthetics to describe and depict northern and western terrain.;An aesthetic mode of perceiving nature, as has been argued by perceptual geographers, art historians, and literary critics, constitutes one way that a society forms it understanding of reality. For the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Briton, the Sublime and the Picturesque were the …