Problems associated with the ability of elementary school children to successfully retrieve material in the school library media center and some alternative methods of classification which may help to alleviate these problems: A case study of the common school library, amherst, massachusetts

Public and Access Services Quarterly

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-63

  Cooper, Linda ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalog use by children; Child development and information retrieval; Subject access by children

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010294083     PISSN: 10564942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J119v02n01_05     Document Type: Article

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