Analysis of search behaviour in the NTU OPAC.

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Lau, Eng Pwey.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Goh, Dion Hoe Lian
• التنسيق: Theses and Dissertations
• منشور في: 2008
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1882
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

This dissertation analyses the transaction logs of the NTU OPAC system to uncover interesting usage patterns of its users. The results indicate that a high proportion of NTU OPAC users are “Novices” who apply longer query lengths, limited use of Boolean operators and perform more consecutive queries...