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  • × author_ss:"Geffert, B."
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  1. Geffert, B.: Beginning with MARC : providing a foundation for electronic searching (1995) 0.01
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    Abstract
    Suggests that many problems encountered by students when using online cataloguers arise from a basic unfamiliarity with record structure and its impact on electronic searching. To illustrate the contention that catalogue instruction should begin with an examination and discussion of MARC records, describes a MARC based presentation delivered during freshman orientation at St. Olaf College, Minnesota. Also includes the sample MARC record and script followed by the instructional librarian