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School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

1990

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Librarians As An Online Sales Force, Carol Tenopir Dec 1990

Librarians As An Online Sales Force, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The role of librarians in the online database market is discussed.

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Online Without A Modem, Carol Tenopir Nov 1990

Online Without A Modem, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article introduces Faxtex, a series of database products by Searchcraft. Faxtex is being started for the purpose of leapfrogging over the primary three limitations in the industry namely, the need for a computer or a terminal, a modem and a password. Searchcraft's Faxtex service is a series of database products that have the potential to become the first truly mass-market, consumer-oriented database products. Faxtex requires only a touchtone phone to search textual databases. The user dials one of a series of 900 telephone numbers to connect to the Faxtex service. A combination of prerecorded and computer-synthesized voices leads the …

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Database Quality Revisited, Carol Tenopir Oct 1990

Database Quality Revisited, Carol Tenopir

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Eleven components that enable librarians to successfully judge database quality have been identified by the Southern California Online Users Group (SCOUG). These quality control factors are discussed.

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Collection Development, Carol Tenopir Sep 1990

Collection Development, Carol Tenopir

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Discusses CD-ROM publications and their importance to librarians trying to decide what product to buy. `CD-ROM Professional' magazine; `CD-ROM Collection Builder's Toolkit,' by Paul T. Nicholls; Buying guides; Directories; CD-ROM manifesto; Draft; Standards; Interfaces; Networking; Sales and support.

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Online Information Anxiety, Carol Tenopir Aug 1990

Online Information Anxiety, Carol Tenopir

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Librarians contribute to the information overload problem by attempting to provide the best possible collections and service. Solutions to the information anxiety problem created by online databases are discussed.

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General Periodical Indexes On Cd-Rom., Carol Tenopir, Timothy Smith Jul 1990

General Periodical Indexes On Cd-Rom., Carol Tenopir, Timothy Smith

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Because general periodical indexes are an important way of providing access to the library collection and are used heavily, they are a natural product for CD-ROM. Products from 4 major companies - EBSCO Electronic Information, H. W. Wilson Co., University Microfilms International (UMI), and Information Access Co. - are compared. All of the products examined feature extensive help screens, all follow the standard convention of displaying the most recent citation first, and all use the Esc key to move up through the menu hierarchy. H. W. Wilson's Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature and Readers' Guide Abstracts allow patrons access to …

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Article Delivery Solutions, Carol Tenopir Jun 1990

Article Delivery Solutions, Carol Tenopir

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This article discusses solutions to the problems of libraries that offer online or CD-ROM searching of bibliographic databases. One perennial problem facing libraries that offer online or CD-ROM searching of bibliographic databases is helping patrons get copies of the documents they identify in a search. Although the problem exists even with printed indexes, database searching makes it easier to locate more items in a wider variety of sources. Patrons with long printouts of articles in sometimes obscure journals are common in libraries, especially as libraries provide CD-ROM indexes for self-service searching. Some libraries report an increase in the use of …

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Multimedia Cd-Rom, Carol Tenopir May 1990

Multimedia Cd-Rom, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Discusses multimedia CD-ROM, which combines sound and pictures with ASCII text on a single compact disc and can hold thousands of digitized photographs, maps, or other graphics plus sound and millions of characters of text. Discussion of Compton's MultiMedia Encyclopedia, which has won a number of awards; Description of the third edition of the Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia, which includes not only text but also pictures; Mention of the Microsoft product Mammals: A Multimedia Encyclopedia from National Geographic, which is an adaptation of a two-volume set of print books; Audubon Birds of America from CMC ReSearch Inc., which features Audubon's original …

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Full Text Search Strategies And Modifications: The Role Of The Searcher And The Role Of The System, Carol Tenopir, Diane Nahl-Jakobovits, Dara Lee Howard May 1990

Full Text Search Strategies And Modifications: The Role Of The Searcher And The Role Of The System, Carol Tenopir, Diane Nahl-Jakobovits, Dara Lee Howard

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Value-Added Searching, Carol Tenopir Apr 1990

Value-Added Searching, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article discusses the importance of adding value to information products and services for library database searching. It describes something added by human intellectual effort to the basic bibliographic or textual information found in the records. Database searchers can use the value-added information to refine or improve their search. A type of value that is added to database searching is editing and analyzing what the searchers do with the search results before presenting it to the user. The positive points are obvious for professional searchers, but value-added information present trade-offs to the database producer and to the searcher. Most of …

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Searching For Books Online, Carol Tenopir Mar 1990

Searching For Books Online, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Online search services that allow reference librarians to search for a comprehensive list of books on a topic are discussed. OCLC's new EPIC service and the advantages it has to offer are discussed.

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