Undergraduate Students Still Experience Difficulty Interpreting Library of Congress Call Numbers

Undergraduate Students Still Experience Difficulty Interpreting Library of Congress Call Numbers

Objective – To explore how undergraduate students interpret Library of Congress call numbers when trying to locate books. Design – Multiple case study. Setting – A public, residential university in Illinois, United States of America. Subjects – 11 undergraduate students (10 upper div...

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Main Author:	Michelle Dalton
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	University of Alberta 2013-12-01
Series:	Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
Subjects:	academic librarianship information literacy classification
Online Access:	https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/eblip/index.php/EBLIP/article/view/20001

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