Dewey Decimal Classification – 10 main divisions

Dewey Classification – sub-divisions of division 500

Dewey Classification – sub-divisions of sub-division 560

OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) - Advanced capabilities

interface friendliness

document representing elements which are not searchable fields

connections between documents searching and browsing options options of sorting and viewing the search results

integration of ex-catalog information resources

searchable fields

OPAC – document’s cover, table of contents, review

OPAC - links to external information resources

OPAC – Boolean search, truncation, retrieval limiting

OPAC – sorting search results by various elements

HIS 2

HIS 3HIS 1

functional arrangement and notation – History division

getting retrieved documents according to

a printed list sorted by their functional

notation

hypotheses

Intellectual retrieval of documents by browsing the OPAC will produce more relevant documents than their retrieval by browsing the shelf

Users of academic libraries already prefer OPAC browsing to shelf browsing, a tendency which will even increase in the future

Intellectual retrieval of relevant documents by browsing the OPAC will take a shorter time than their intellectual retrieval by browsing the shelf

results

The OPAC browsing averagely produced 3 times more relevant documents than the shelf browsing

The preference of retrieving documents by OPAC browsing is increasing while the shelf browsing is decreasing

The OPAC browsing of relevant documents averagely took ½ the time consumed by the shelf browsing of relevant documents