FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W1517868143> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W1517868143 endingPage "387" @default.
• W1517868143 startingPage "381" @default.
• W1517868143 abstract "In 1981, the Council on Library Resources (CLR) provided the funding to enable five organizations to conduct a study of library users and online public access catalogs (OPACs). The five organizations were J. Matthews & Associates (JMA), Library of Congress (LC), Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), The Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG), and the University of California's Division of Library Automation (UC/DLA). These five organizations coordinated their activities in the development, pretesting, and administration of questionnaires used to survey library patrons at twenty-nine libraries in the United States.(1) CLR also sponsored three (OCLC, UC/DLA, and RLG) of the five organizations to study online catalogs using other methods in addition to the questionnaire/survey method. OCLC(2) and UC/DLA(3) employed transaction log analysis to study OPAC use at seven libraries. RLG's study of OPACs included individual and group interviews with library staff at three academic research libraries.(4) The OCLC project team conducted focused-group interviews with library patron OPAC users and nonusers and library public and technical services staff at six libraries.(5) This discussion presents the findings of the focused-group interviews conducted by OCLC. Each of the six libraries offered online searching of its collection through an OPAC. The libraries and the names of their OPACs (in parentheses) are: Dallas Public (LSCAN), Iowa City Public (CLSI/PAC), Library of Congress (MUMS and SCORPIO), Mankato State University (MSUS/PALS), Ohio State University (LCS), and Syracuse University (SULIRS). At each interview site, focused-group interview participants were recruited either from captured groups, e. g., university classes and mandatory instructional workshops, or through a general plea for volunteer participation. Group participants at universities were undergraduate users, undergraduate nonusers, graduate users, graduate nonusers, faculty users, faculty nonusers, reference staff, and technical services staff. Group participants at public libraries and federal libraries were young adult users, young adult nonusers, adult users, adult nonusers, older adult users, older adult nonusers, reference staff, and technical services staff. Focused-group interviews provide qualitative information on library patrons' and staff's needs and perceptions of online public access catalogs. This method has been employed in related research to obtain library patrons' expectations, needs, and criteria for success when searching libraries' subject catalogs.(6) Complete descriptions of the focusedgroup interview method and analysis procedures are given in Merton, Fiske, and Kendall's manual on the method.(7) A focused-group interview requires a group of six to twelve individuals who are led through an open, in-depth discussion by a group moderator. The moderator follows a series of open-ended questions, focusing the conversation on pertinent subject areas in a nondirective fashion. The moderator is free, however, to pursue interesting topics that emerge in the discussion. Group members challenge, interact, and stimulate one another, and provide researchers with insights, spontaneous thoughts, and language that infrequently occur in personal interviews. One of the greatest strengths of the focused-group interview method is the qualitative nature of participants' remarks. Library patrons and staff can express their needs and perceptions of online catalogs in their own words. Quantitative data collection methods used in the CLR-sponsored online catalog studies, such as surveys and transaction log analyses, provided few opportunities for library patrons and staff to express in their own words their needs and perceptions of online catalogs. Our analysis of participants' remarks yielded six generalizations about staffs' and patrons' needs and perceptions of online public access catalogs: 1. …" @default.
• W1517868143 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W1517868143 creator A5000741743 @default.
• W1517868143 date "1983-01-01" @default.
• W1517868143 modified "2023-09-24" @default.
• W1517868143 title "Thus Spake the OPAC User" @default.
• W1517868143 hasPublicationYear "1983" @default.
• W1517868143 type Work @default.
• W1517868143 sameAs 1517868143 @default.
• W1517868143 citedByCount "8" @default.
• W1517868143 countsByYear W15178681432012 @default.
• W1517868143 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W1517868143 hasAuthorship W1517868143A5000741743 @default.
• W1517868143 hasConcept C136764020 @default.
• W1517868143 hasConcept C161191863 @default.
• W1517868143 hasConcept C2780416505 @default.
• W1517868143 hasConcept C41008148 @default.
• W1517868143 hasConcept C74305511 @default.
• W1517868143 hasConceptScore W1517868143C136764020 @default.
• W1517868143 hasConceptScore W1517868143C161191863 @default.
• W1517868143 hasConceptScore W1517868143C2780416505 @default.
• W1517868143 hasConceptScore W1517868143C41008148 @default.
• W1517868143 hasConceptScore W1517868143C74305511 @default.
• W1517868143 hasIssue "4" @default.
• W1517868143 hasLocation W15178681431 @default.
• W1517868143 hasOpenAccess W1517868143 @default.
• W1517868143 hasPrimaryLocation W15178681431 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W112185896 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W142896259 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W1494092862 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W2012237370 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W2012841406 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W2024653294 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W2053324174 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W2060517801 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W209030259 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W232383905 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W249599213 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W280640764 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W286268280 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W2972394845 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W314493868 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W315887029 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W3192093014 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W323544462 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W341502587 @default.
• W1517868143 hasRelatedWork W38021485 @default.
• W1517868143 hasVolume "2" @default.
• W1517868143 isParatext "false" @default.
• W1517868143 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W1517868143 magId "1517868143" @default.
• W1517868143 workType "article" @default.