The Getty end-user online searching project in the humanities: Report no. 6: Overview and conclusions

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 514-523

  Bates, Marcia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0030362810     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl_57_06_514     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. Marcia J. Bates, Deborah N. Wilde, and Susan Siegfried, "An Analysis of Search Terminology Used by Humanities Scholars: The Getty Online Searching Project Report Number 1," Library Quarterly 63 (Jan. 1993): 1-39.
2. Susan Siegfried, Marcia J. Bates, and Deborah N. Wilde, "A Profile of End-User Searching Behavior by Humanities Scholars: The Getty Online Searching Project Report No. 2," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 44 (June 1993): 273-91.
3. Marcia J. Bates, Deborah N. Wilde, and Susan Siegfried, "Research Practices of Humanities Scholars in an Online Environment: The Getty Online Searching Project Report No. 3," Library and Information Science Research 17 (winter 1995): 5-40.
4. Marcia J. Bates, "The Design of Databases and Other Information Resources for Humanities Scholars: The Getty Online Searching Project Report No. 4," Online and CD-ROM Review 18 (Dec. 1994): 331-40.
5. _, "Document Familiarity, Relevance, and Bradford's Law: The Getty Online Searching Project Report No. 5," Information Processing & Management 32 (November 1996): in press.
6. Rebecca Watson-Boone, "The Information Needs and Habits of Humanities Scholars," RQ 34 (winter 1994): 203-16.
7. Sue Stone, "Humanities Scholars: Information Needs and Uses," Journal of Documentation 38 (Dec. 1982): 292-312.
8. Stephen E. Wiberley Jr. and William G. Jones, "Patterns of Information Seeking in the Humanities," College & Research Libraries 50 (Nov. 1989): 638-45.
9. _, "Humanists Revisited: A Longitudinal Look at the Adoption of Information Technology," College & Research Libraries 55 (Nov. 1994): 499-509.
10. The J. Paul Getty Trust is a private operating foundation. Two of its programs are the Getty Information Institute (formerly the Getty Art History Information Program) and the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities (formerly the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities). These two entities collaborated on this research.
11. Bryan Pfaffenberger, Democratizing Information: Online Databases and the Rise of End-User Searching (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990), 111-12.
12. Wiberley and Jones, "Patterns of Information Seeking."
13. Susan S. Guest, "The Use of Bibliographical Tools by Humanities Faculty at the State University of New York at Albany," Reference Librarian 18 (summer 1987): 157-72.
14. Stephen E. Wiberley Jr., "Subject Access in the Humanities and the Precision of the Humanist's Vocabulary," Library Quarterly 53 (Oct. 1983): 420-33.
15. _, "Names in Space and Time: The Indexing Vocabulary of the Humanities," Library Quarterly 58 (Jan. 1988): 1-28.
16. Tefko Saracevic and Paul Kantor, "A Study of Information Seeking and Retrieving. II. Users, Questions, and Effectiveness," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 39 (May 1988): 177-96.
17. Ibid., 195.
18. Marcia J. Bates, "Implications of the Subject Subdivisions Conference: The Shift in Online Catalog Design," in The Future of Subdivisions in the Library of Congress Subject Headings System: Report from the Subject Subdivisions Conference Sponsored by the Library of Congress, May 9-12, 1991, ed. Martha O. Conway (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress Cataloging Distribution Service, 1992), 92-98.