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Students, Librarians, and Subject Guides: Improving a Poor Rate of Return
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 4, Number 1, January 2004
- pp. 123-130
- 10.1353/pla.2004.0020
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Librarians use subject guides to introduce students to library materials. Surveys, usability tests, and usage statistics demonstrate that students do not relate well to subject guides. We suggest that library resources organized or delivered at a course level are more in line with how undergraduate students approach library research.