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Trends In End User Searching, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Tenopir notes that five major end user trends have emerged this year: web versions, end user systems through the library, integration of information sources, the rethinking of proprietary software solutions, and specialized focus/customized products.

The Evolving Database Marketplace, Jeff Barry, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Initially propelled by online searching and CD-ROM networking, and now given added momentum by the Internet, electronic reference resources are changing the way librarians provide reference service. Library users are accessing traditional citation and abstract databases with greater ease and efficacy than before, thanks to more consistent and friendlier interfaces and the integration of full text and graphics.

How fundamental are the changes to library reference services? According to LJ's 1996 Reference Survey, librarians estimate that in the next three years their CD-ROM reference sources will grow by 51 percent and their online sources by 43 percent, vs. fairly …

What’S New With Umi?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Discusses the status of UMI in November 1996. The history of UMI; UMI's launching of the ProQuest Direct online service; UMI's acquisition of DataTimes in September 1996; UMI's production of CD-ROM; UMI's PowerPages systems; How UMI provides full-text service; UMI's collaboration with the H.W. Wilson Company; Opinions on the future of indexing; The future of UMI.

Has Online Made Cd-Rom Obsolete?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Debates the longevity of CD-ROM with the rise of commercial online services and the Internet. Ways to measure the growth of the CD-ROM industry; What's available on CD-ROM; The introduction of DVD (digital videodiscs); When to use CD-ROM and when to use online services; Measurement on how long CD-ROM will still be used.

Generations Of Online Searching, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Presents an excerpt about online searching based on a presentation to the Florida Library Association. The assertion that online searching in the mid-1990s has its roots in earlier online generations; Evolution; Content/databases; People involved; Places people search; Uses for online services; Search engines/interfaces; Survival skills.

Auditing An Academic Library Book Collection, Ken Wise, Jack E. Kiger

UT Libraries Faculty: Peer-Reviewed Publications

Librarians may use attribute sampling to estimate the maximum portion of a population having an attribute of interest. Advantages of the technique are that the user may examine a very small portion of the population and make an estimate with very low but measurable risk of misstatement.

Online Copyright Dilemmas, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Discusses the benefit copyright protection provides to publishers and authors, and at the same time the dilemmas it raises in regard to the law in an online environment. The affirmation of copyright protection for electronic products by most courts; Online copyright compliance; The fees that are paid directly to publishers by large online document delivery services such as EBSCO; Advice on how librarians should handle electronic copyrights.

Front-End Software Proliferates, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Discusses how online searchers are expecting to use a proprietary front-end software package to access their systems. Description of what front-end packages are; The markets to which they are aimed; What a successful front-end system features; KR ProBase.

Electronic Publishing: A Study Of Functions And Participants, Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Database Producers Go Online, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Relates the expansion by several major producers of general interest databases to becoming online vendors. IAC, EBSCO, and UMI joining Wilson as online purveyors of their own content; Their use of client/server technology, Z39.50 compliance, graphical user interfaces, access over the Internet, and the use of the World Wide Web (WWW) for enhanced document delivery; Detailed description of each vendors' databse.

Setting The Record Straight On Journal Publishing: Myth Vs. Reality., Carol Tenopir, Donald W. King

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Attempts to expose some of the myths that stand in the way of a better future for scholarly publishing. Traditional print journals and electronic publishing; Showing the myth and the reality; The myth that libraries have become irrelevant to scientists; The myth that scientists cancel personal subscriptions because they do not need the journals; The myth that storage and communication of electronic journals are free; The dispelling of other myths.

Moving To The Information Village, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Explains how Engineering Information Inc.'s (EI) Engineering Information Village is a useful tool for librarians to bring order out of the chaotic information environment. Features of the Ei Village; The web as the heart of the Village; Ei Compendex Plus being the cornerstone of the village library; Prices; One of the first commercial integrated information products.

Guis Gain Prominence: Baton And Profound, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Many text-based interfaces are creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for their old information systems. Some of the most imaginative GUI examples are being developed by small online services, such as EyeQ by DataTimes and Baton system from NewsNet. These and other examples are discussed.

Linear Goal Programming For Academic Library Acquisitions Allocations, Ken Wise, D. E. Perushek

UT Libraries Faculty: Peer-Reviewed Publications

The allocation of an academic library's acquisitions funds should contribute to the achievement of the library's goals and objectives. The availability of diverse materials and the varying demands of user needs in a variety of subject disciplines may represent a set of conflicting, incommensurate goals. Lexicographic linear goal programming offers an appropriate allocation methodology for determining an optimal solution with conflicting goals. This article applies this methodology to 90 funds representing books and periodicals in 45 subject disciplines at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). The model's goals incorporate several categories of budget constraints and user needs. The application of …

Roy Fuller: A Bibliography, Steven Escar Smith

Other Library Publications and Works

This bibliography treats the work of the British poet, novelist, and critic Roy Fuller (1912 - 1991) from his earliest periodical appearance in the late 1920s to his posthumously published poems in 1993.