Catalog user search strategies in finding music materials

Music Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1-24

  King, David M ^a  

^a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Access points; OPACs; Scores; Sound recordings; User studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548308635     PISSN: 10588167     EISSN: 15409503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J116v09n04_01     Document Type: Article

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