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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Library public terminals provide users with a rich portal function that provides access to myriad remote and local information resources. These resources typically include local, state, and regional Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs), national shared cataloging databases such as Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), remote and locally loaded Abstracting and Indexing (A & I) services, licensed publisher full-text repositories and portals, and custom local databases and Web sites produced by the library. Clearly, it is important for libraries to gather usage statistics on these resources for collection development decisions and to help identify public service needs. Determining the frequency and order of selections from the public terminal menu can provide useful interface design data for the arrangement of menu options and the determination of primary and secondary menus. In particular, libraries spend a significant portion of their collection development budget on a variety of licensed A & I services and a growing number of full-text publisher sites. These resources may be paid out of the budgets of branch or departmental science and engineering libraries or from central library funds, or a combination of both. Determining usage data for these licensed resources is of primary importance.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Information Practice in Science and Technology |
Subtitle of host publication | Evolving Challenges and New Directions |
Editors | Mary C Schlembach |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 127-138 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780203049976 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780789021847, 9780789021830 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2003 |
Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book