Surname plus recallable title word searches for known items by scholars

Authors
Kilgour, FG Moran, BB
Citation
Fg. Kilgour et Bb. Moran, Surname plus recallable title word searches for known items by scholars, J AM S INFO, 51(1), 2000, pp. 83-89
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Library & Information Science
Journal title
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
ISSN journal
00028231 → ACNP
Volume
51
Issue
1
Year of publication
2000
Pages
83 - 89
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-8231(200001)51:1<83:SPRTWS>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
This experiment searches an online library catalog employing author surname s, plus title words of books in citations of eight scholarly works whose au thors selected the title words used as being recallable. Searches comprisin g surname together with two recallable title words, or one if only one was available, yielded a single-screen miniature catalog (minicat) 99.0% of the time.