The Use of OPAC in a Large Academic Library: A Transactional Log Analysis Study of Subject Searching

The analysis of user searches in catalogs has been the topic of research for over four decades, involving numerous studies and diverse methodologies. The present study looks at how different types of users effect queries in the catalog of a university library. For this purpose, we analyzed log files...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of academic librarianship 2007-05, Vol.33 (3), p.327-337
Hauptverfasser:	Villén-Rueda, Luis, Senso, Jose A., de Moya-Anegón, Félix
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Academic Libraries Colleges & universities Exact sciences and technology Indexing Information and communication sciences Information processing and retrieval Information retrieval. Man machine relationship Information science. Documentation Information Seeking Internet Library cataloging Online catalogues Online Searching Research Libraries Research process. Evaluation Sciences and techniques of general use Search strategies Searches Transaction log analysis Users (Information)
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Zusammenfassung:	The analysis of user searches in catalogs has been the topic of research for over four decades, involving numerous studies and diverse methodologies. The present study looks at how different types of users effect queries in the catalog of a university library. For this purpose, we analyzed log files to determine which was the most frequent type of search conducted among different user types. Results show that searches by browsing are similar in frequency to the analytical queries, and that only 14 percent of queries actually specify the subject heading.
ISSN:	0099-1333 1879-1999
DOI:	10.1016/j.acalib.2007.01.018