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Overcoming The Black Box Syndrome, Carol Tenopir
Overcoming The Black Box Syndrome, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Discusses the `black box' approach favored by developers to make online or CD-ROM search software friendlier. The view that good online searching requires an understanding of how the computer processes information; Questions the searcher should ask; Boolean or statistical searching; How does it treat a blank; What does it search by default; How much should end users know.
Quality In Distribution Channels, Carol Tenopir
Quality In Distribution Channels, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Discusses how quality relates to the information distribution channels of databases, with emphasis on the links between the database content or producer and the users. Choices for access; Assuring quality; Tendencies and prospects; Progress.
Cd-Rom Best Sellers Lists, Carol Tenopir
Cd-Rom Best Sellers Lists, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Lists of best-selling CD-ROMs are not useful in buying CD-ROMs for library use. A better approach is to buy products that receive the best reviews or that are in the most demand in libraries.
Is It Any Of Our Business?, Carol Tenopir
Is It Any Of Our Business?, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Many library patrons search CD-ROM data bases and online public access catalogs in ways that are inefficient and ineffective. Librarians must take the responsibility of training users to formulate better search strategies.
Changes Wrought By Cd-Rom, Carol Tenopir
Changes Wrought By Cd-Rom, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
By 1988 almost 60% of US academic and public libraries were using CD-ROM databases. CD-ROM products have changed library collections, patron expectations and reference service.
How Up-To-Date Is That Update?, Carol Tenopir
How Up-To-Date Is That Update?, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Timeliness of online and CD-ROM databases depends on both the frequency of updates and the currency of information being added in each update. Comparisons of two CD-ROM indexes - LISA and Library Lit - and of 12 online databases are offered.
Cd-Rom Goes Consumer, Carol Tenopir
Cd-Rom Goes Consumer, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
CD-ROM products have already been enthusiastically received by librarians and educators, but now CD-ROM publishers are seeking to make inroads in the consumer market.
The Impact Of Cd-Rom On Online, Carol Tenopir
The Impact Of Cd-Rom On Online, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
CD-ROM has reawakened the term migration, but this time the fear is of migration from online use of databases to CD-ROM. CD-ROM sources and the possible impacts on online databases are examined.
What’S Happening With Cd-Rom, Part 1, Carol Tenopir
What’S Happening With Cd-Rom, Part 1, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
It is expected that there will be an increase in the number of databases on CD-ROM during 1989. Directories for finding out what is available on CD-ROM and information on the companies that produce them are discussed.
Decision Making By Reference Librarians, Carol Tenopir
Decision Making By Reference Librarians, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Presents guidelines for choosing alternatives for reference materials in the library. Effects of adding technological reference sources to a library; Use of online searching in academic research; Benefits of online database; When to choose CD-ROM and printed reference materials.
Publications On Cd‑Rom: Librarians Can Make A Difference, Carol Tenopir
Publications On Cd‑Rom: Librarians Can Make A Difference, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Lists CD-ROM products presented at the 1987 annual meetings of the Special Libraries Association and the American Library Association. Categories of CD products for libraries; Innovative products from CD publishers that respond to users' needs.
Costs And Benefits Of Cd‑Rom, Carol Tenopir
Costs And Benefits Of Cd‑Rom, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Comments on the increasing number of indexes and abstracts available on CD-ROM for libraries in the U.S. Impact on the purchasing decisions of librarians; Comparison of the costs of different products; Availability of library funds for the CD-ROM subscription.
Cd‑Rom Database Update, Carol Tenopir
Cd‑Rom Database Update, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Presents news updates pertaining to CD-ROM database products in the U.S. as of December 1986. Increasing number of database products available on optical digital discs; Digital Equipment Corp.'s decision to exit from the CD-ROM database publishing to produce and market subsets of their databases on CD-ROM; Instability of CD-ROM products.
Databases On Cd-Rom, Carol Tenopir
Databases On Cd-Rom, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
Reports on the availability of CD-ROM databases in the United States. Rationale behind the use of CD-ROM in database development; Databases distributed by Digital Equipment Corp. as of 1986; CD-ROM databases from SilverPlatter Information Inc. on test mode; University Microfilms International's CD-ROM and optical disc databases.