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Main Authors: Spink, Amanda, And Others
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1995
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ513861
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Table of Contents:
  • Search Intermediary Elicitations during Mediated Online Searching. Spink, Amanda And Others Academic Libraries Databases Higher Education Information Seeking Information Sources Online Searching Prior Learning Relevance (Information Retrieval) Search Intermediaries Search Strategies Subject Index Terms Users (Information) Describes a study that investigated search intermediaries' requests for information from patrons during mediated online searching in an academic library. Topics of search intermediaries' elicitations include search terms and strategies, database selection, relevance of retrieved items, patrons' knowledge and previous information seeking, and other sources of information available. (Author/LRW)