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- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2004 Emerald Group Publishing Limited. All rights reserved.
- ISSN
- 1065-075X
- DOI
- 10.1108/10650750410564691
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This paper draws on data from a comparative study of use of the online public access catalogue (OPAC) and the card catalogue of the ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) library, and examines the steady decline in the use of subject searching by end‐users and the associated problems and issues. It presents data to highlight the negligible use of Boolean operators and combination searches, variations in descriptors assigned to books of the same class numbers, and too many records tagged to very broad descriptors. The article concludes that moving from a traditional card catalogue to a modern OPAC has not made subject searching more attractive or effective.
Journal
OCLC Systems and Services: International digital library perspectives – Emerald Publishing
Published: Dec 1, 2004
Keywords: Online catalogues, Information retrieval