Searching for information in an online public access catalogue (OPAC): the impacts of information search expertise on the use of Boolean operators.

Boolean systems still constitute most of the installed base of online public access catalogues (OPACs) in the French universities even if many studies have shown that Boolean operators are not frequently used by 'non-librarian' users (by contrast with professional librarians). The first study examin...

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Published in:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 20; no. 5; pp. 338 - 347
Main Authors: Dinet J, Favart M, Passerault J
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Oct2004
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