What Is User Friendly? Papers presented at the Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (23rd, Urbana, Illinois, April 20-22, 1986).

The papers in this proceedings consider ways in which user friendly interface design may be used to make online systems in public and academic libraries easier to use, and thus more attractive to potential users. A short introduction by F. W. Lancaster is followed by nine papers: (1) "Linking the Unlinkable" (Michael Gorman); (2) "Aristotle Meets Plato in the Library Catalog: Part 1" (Ward Shaw); (3) "Aristotle Meets Plato in the Library Catalog: Part 2" (Ken Dowlin); (4) "Toward a Definition of User Friendliness: A Psychological Perspective" (Christine L. Borgman); (4) "Is 'User Friendly' Really Possible in Library Automation?" (Dale K. Carrison); (5) "User Interfaces for Online Library Catalogs" (Emily Gallup Fayen); (6) "Taming the Unfriendly System: Microcomputers as Patron Terminals to Access an Online Catalog" (Gary A. Golden); (7) "Natural Language User Interfaces in Information Retrieval" (Tamas E. Doszkocs); (8) "Design Issues in Automatic Translation for Online Information Retrieval Systems" (David E. Toliver); and (9) "User Friendly Future: Applications of New Information Technology" (Linda C. Smith). Seven of the papers include bibliographic references. (EW)