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Independence at the Terminal: Training Student End Users to Do Online Literature Searching

Linda Friend
- 01 Jan 1985 - 
- Vol. 11, Iss: 3
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This article is published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship.The article was published on 1985-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: End user.

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The Suitability of Web Analytics Key Performance Indicators in the Academic Library Environment

TL;DR: This article discusses how commercial web metrics might be adapted for use in academic libraries and major key performance indicators used in the commercial sector are reviewed in the academic library context.
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Providing Library Instruction to Graduate Students: A Review of the Literature

TL;DR: The authors traces library instructional programs available to graduate students in academic institutions in North America from the late 1950s to the present, including programs from 1958 to 1989 that offered traditional bibliographic instruction of print resources as well as some online and CD-ROM databases prior to the widespread availability of the Internet.
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The Dimensions of Library Service Quality: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the LibQUAL+ Instrument

TL;DR: This study uses LibQUAL + responses from undergraduates at a public, comprehensive university to test three-factor, two-Factor, and one-factor models of user perceptions of library service quality, and adds to the literature the unique perspective of residual analysis and builds theoretical arguments in the interpretation of the final model.
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Using the online public access catalogue at the university of botswana

TL;DR: The findings indicated that respondents searched mostly by title, author, keyword and subject, and had difficulties with subject search, use of advanced searching options, downloading and printing search results, accessing full-text journal articles through OPAC.

End-User Searching in an Academic Library--The Students' View.

TL;DR: Survey items, including subject searched, method of instruction, amount of searching experience, database selected, and perceived relevance of citations retrieved were cross-tabulated and examined for significance using the chi square test.