Access to Current Information Online

Marilyn Domas White

This paper describes online newsmedia databases which have been intentionally designed to respond to needs for information that is more current than the information in printed indexes or online versions of these indexes. It is suggested that these...

Diffusion of an Innovation: Digital Reference Service in Carnegie Foundation Master's (Comprehensive) Academic Institution Libraries

Marilyn Domas White

Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol. 27, No. 3 (2001) pp. 173–87

Analyses academic digital reference services in institutions categorized as Master's (Comprehensive) Universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching that offer undergraduate and master's degree education within the framework...

Digital Reference Services: Framework for Analysis and Evaluation

Marilyn Domas White

Library & Information Science Research Vol. 23, No. 3 (2001) pp. 211–31

Presents a framework for analyzing and evaluating digital reference services based on systems analysis. Focuses on existence of a public archive, content, selectivity, safeguards for privacy, access, browsability and searchability, and relationship...

Questioning Behavior on a Consumer Health Electronic List

Marilyn Domas White

Library Quarterly Vol. 70, No. 3 (2000) pp. 302–34

Using a thorough analytical framework, this study characterizes the questioning behavior on a consumer health-related electronic list. Analysis examines the dedication of the list to questioning; pattern of question asking within a message; type of...

A Study of the Communication Patterns of Participants in Consumer Health Electronic Discussion Groups

Natalie A. Schoch; Marilyn Domas White

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting Vol. 34 (1997) pp. 280–92

Compares the interactions in two listservs, one dealing with a chronic illness (diabetes), the other with a more acute disease (colon cancer). Analysis of 1000 messages from each list categorized messages by problem orientation and into...

What Constitutes Adoption of the Web: A Methodological Problem in Assessing Adoption of the World Wide Web for Electronic Commerce

Marilyn Domas White; Eileen G. Abels; Laura Gordon-Murnane

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting Vol. 35 (1998) pp. 217–26

Reports on methodological developments in a project to assess the adoption of the Web by publishers of business information for electronic commerce. Describes the approach used on a sample of 20 business publishers to identify five clusters of...

Developing Subject-Related Web Sites Collaboratively: The Virtual Business Information Center

Eileen G. Abels; Marilyn Domas White; Soojung Kim

Journal of Academic Librarianship Vol. 33, No. 1 (January 2007) pp. 27–40

This article is a case study of the Virtual Business Information Center (VBIC), a collaborative effort since 1998 of the College of Information Studies, Robert H. Smith School of Business, and the University of Maryland Libraries. The case study...