著者

種市 淳子 逸村 裕 TANEICHI Junko ITSUMURA Hiroshi

出版者

名古屋大学附属図書館研究開発室

雑誌

名古屋大学附属図書館研究年報 (ISSN:1348687X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, pp.57-68, 2007-03-31 (Released:2009-02-10)

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Using an OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) that provides search access points with a table of contents at a college library, we implemented analysis of OPAC access logs and a search experiment. We examined information seeking behaviors by taking advantage of OPAC. We conducted the analysis by paying particular attention to the effects on seeking behaviors of differences in experience in using search engines. As a result of our research, three things have become clear. 1) It is typical that the students combine one or two words to make a search term and they have a tendency to use free terms frequently. 2) In more than half of the search results, the search terms were found in the tables of contents. 3) Experiences of using search engines affected how to deal with the situation when a search receives no hits. The students are rarely conscious of the difference between searches by OPACs and search engines. These results indicate that a search system based on standard bibliographic information in traditional OPAC cannot respond to users’various information seeking behaviors.