The Mobile Version of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Catalog and Its Users

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Feng, Yuanyuan
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • This study investigates how users interact with the mobile version of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) library catalog and what users expect from it. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty participants, and each participant was asked questions on their previous experience with the mobile version of UNC library catalog, their purposes of using it, their library search tasks conducted on it, and their future expectations from it. Results indicate that participants think the mobile library catalog is convenient under certain circumstances and they prefer to conduct simple and quick library search tasks on it. However, the study produces some results contradicting a few previous studies on mobile information needs and mobile information behaviors.
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  • Hemminger, Bradley M.
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  • Master of Science in Information Science
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 55
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