Library Hi Tech: Volume 11 Issue 2

VTLS INC.: The company, the products, the services, the vision

Vinod Chachra, Gail Gulbenkian, Elaine Hartman, Sandeep Somaiya, Antti Soini, Bil Stahl, Claudia V. Weston

Today, VTLS is a comprehensive, integrated solution to the automation requirements of academic, public, and special libraries around the world. No two libraries are alike; no two…

Transaction log analysis

Thomas A. Peters, Martin Kurth, Patricia Flaherty, Beth Sandore, Neal K. Kaske

For the purposes of library and information science research, transaction log analysis can be narrowly defined as the study of electronically recorded interactions between online…

An introduction to the special section on transaction log analysis

Thomas A. Peters, Martin Kurth, Patricia Flaherty, Beth Sandore, Neal K. Kaske

To provide a background for this special section on transaction log analysis, the following discussion proposes a definition of transaction log analysis and briefly introduces…

The history and development of transaction log analysis

Thomas A. Peters

The purpose of this article is to present an overview of the history and development of transaction log analysis (TLA) in library and information science research. Organizing a…

Transaction logging systems: A descriptive summary

Patricia Flaherty

Most automated library systems include a transaction logging component. Yet this fact may be among the best kept secrets in the automated library arena. Often only a few people…

Research methodologies and transaction log analysis: Issues, questions, and a proposed model

Neal K. Kaske

Introduction The central goal of transaction log analysis is to acquire new knowledge, which will help library managers, systems designers/developers, and researchers better…

Applying the results of transaction log analysis

Beth Sandore

The ability to conduct unobtrusive observation of user searching is a potential strength of the method of information retrieval system analysis known as transaction log analysis…

The limits and limitations of transaction log analysis

Martin Kurth

Introduction Since the earliest transaction monitoring studies, researchers have encountered the boundaries that define transaction log analysis as a methodology for studying the…

A manifesto ‐ regarding the future of transaction log analysis

Beth Sandore, Patricia Flaherty, Neal K. Kaske, Martin Kurth, Thomas Peters

Since the late 1970s TLA has maintained its role as the most dependable method for unobtrusive observation of IR system use, although the analysis of transaction logs remains a…

Finishing touches: Peripherals and portables

Walt Crawford

It takes more than a computer, hard disk, diskettes, display, keyboard, and software to make a fully productive computer system. In this article, the author discusses the…