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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Testing the efficacy of augmenting OPAC displays with bibliographic enhancements: A systematic study Abstract: This research addresses whether or not the addition of bibliographic enhancements to an online public access catalog (OPAC), tables of contents and books reviews specifically, changes the information seeking behavior of end-users. These particular enhancements were selected because several previous studies suggest that many end-users prefer to browse shelves and thereby handle books when making decisions about their usefulness. Other studies suggest that many end-users have a propensity to describe books in words or phrases found in tables of contents and indexes, suggesting that these words and phrases may be a better indication of a books potential usefulness than standard bibliographic information, such as the title, author, and subject headings. Together, the findings of studies in these two areas suggest that end-users could benefit from having additional information about books in an OPAC display. |
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