Exploratory Subject Searching in Library Catalogs: Reclaiming the Vision.
Librarians have had innovative ideas for ways to use subject and classification data to provide an improved online search experience for decades, yet after thirty--‐plus years of improvements in our online catalogs, users continue to struggle with narrowing down their subject searches to provide man...
| Publicado en: | Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 92 - 103 |
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| Formato: | pictorial questionnaire/scale Journal Article |
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American Library Association
Jun2015
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