Adding zest to OPAC instruction: Humor and the unexpected

College and Undergraduate Libraries

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 75-85

  Petry, Bonnie L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BI; Bibliographic instruction; Humor; Search examples; Unexpected; Zest

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951615612     PISSN: 10691316     EISSN: 15452530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J106v05n02_11     Document Type: Article

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