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Online Searching Styles: An Exploratory Study

Author(s) -

Stephen P. Harter

Publication year - 1984

Publication title -

college and research libraries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.886

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 2150-6701

pISSN - 0010-0870

DOI - 10.5860/crl_45_04_249

Subject(s) - computer science , exploratory research , information retrieval , world wide web , sociology , anthropology

An exploratory study of self-reported behaviors and attitudes toward online searching was conducted through a questionnaire survey of Florida searchers. The study tested several hypotheses relating specific behaviors and attitudes to experience and institutional setting. Among other conclusions it was found that there are wide individual differences among online searchers in attitudes as well as behaviors, that online searchers from academic institutions differ in several important ways from their counterparts in other library settings, and that experience appears to be positively related to a flexible, trial-and-error approach to online searching.

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